Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] perf, amd: Support for Family 16h L2IPerformance Counters

[Stephane Eranian]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 13:49 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>
>> > Hmm.. the 15h old interface bits got merged? I thought I kept telling
>> > that should be done like the intel uncore stuff since the hardware
>> > interface wasn't retarded anymore.
>>
>> Ah well, that crap seems to have slipped in in Feb when I was still a
>> near vegetable and not paying much attention.
>>
>> /me curses a bit.
>>
>> I don't suppose we can deprecate it and remove this stuff?
>
> I think we can - if there's a functional replacement.
>
Does the existing code expose a type in sysfs?
If not then you cannot do this transparently, I am afraid
because the syntax would be different, i.e., not cpu/...

I reviewed the code and tested it. But at the time, I thought
you had agreed on the approach used.
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