From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:08:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244740081.27363.41.camel@violet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0906111005g5e9cd1c7te603bcdb8c6cc921@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Ray,
> >> No, once a kernel with this syscall gets released we most certainly
> >> intend to maintain its ABI.
> >
> > So what point is there in keeping it in-tree except making life hell for
> > packagers?
>
> Packagers are quite used to taking a single source tree and building
> multiple packages out of it. This isn't rocket science. It's the
> multiple separate trees that need to be released in lock-step that are
> headaches.
with the kernel as source package it is a headache and really painful.
All distros struggle already enough with kernel updates.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-11 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 16:03 [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux Ingo Molnar
2009-06-11 16:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-11 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 16:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-06-11 16:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-11 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 16:47 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-06-11 18:04 ` David Newall
2009-06-11 16:52 ` Al Viro
2009-06-11 16:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-06-11 17:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-11 17:05 ` Ray Lee
2009-06-11 17:08 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-06-11 17:12 ` Al Viro
2009-06-11 17:22 ` Ray Lee
2009-06-11 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 17:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-11 18:10 ` David Newall
2009-06-11 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 18:38 ` David Newall
2009-06-11 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 19:07 ` David Newall
2009-06-11 19:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 19:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 19:35 ` David Newall
2009-06-11 19:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-12 1:43 ` Robert Richter
2009-06-12 3:21 ` David Newall
2009-06-11 19:37 ` David Newall
2009-06-11 18:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-11 19:05 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-06-11 18:24 ` Martin Bligh
2009-06-11 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 20:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-11 20:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-06-11 21:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-11 21:17 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-06-11 21:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-11 22:18 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-06-11 22:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 22:38 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-11 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-12 7:35 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-11 23:19 ` Al Viro
2009-06-11 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-12 0:26 ` Al Viro
2009-06-12 2:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-12 4:05 ` Al Viro
2009-06-11 21:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-12 10:19 ` Jörn Engel
2009-06-11 21:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-28 1:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-11 19:58 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-11 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-12 4:07 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-06-11 16:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11 18:50 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-15 13:41 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2009-06-15 15:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-12 9:56 ` stephane eranian
2009-06-12 10:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-18 21:58 ` stephane eranian
2009-06-22 13:10 ` Performance analysis under Linux (was: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux) Ingo Molnar
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