From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:57:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Generalise ARM perf-events backend for oprofile
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:46:18AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> The perf-events backend for OProfile that Will Deacon wrote in
> 8c1fc96f6fd1f361428ba805103af0d0eee65179 ("ARM: 6072/1: oprofile: use
> perf-events framework as backend") is of use to more architectures
> than just ARM. Move the code into drivers/oprofile/ so that SH can use
> it instead of the nearly identical copy of its OProfile code.

Nice, I didn't know such a backend already existed.  Now that you
have made it generic we should aim towards making it the only oprofile
backend and getting rid of all the duplication.