Re: [PATCH] dcookies: Make dcookies depend on CONFIG_OPROFILE

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:52 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Is it time to deprecate and eventually remove oprofile while we're at
> it?

I think it's well past time.

I think the user-space "oprofile" program doesn't actually use the
legacy kernel code any more, and hasn't for a long time.

But I might be wrong. Adding William Cohen to the cc, since he seems
to still maintain it to make sure it builds etc.

             Linus