From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: m.nazarewicz@samsung.com (=?utf-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBOYXphcmV3aWN6?=) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:09:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in sysfs In-Reply-To: <1263996080.4283.1064.camel@laptop> References: <1263978706-15499-1-git-send-email-t.fujak@samsung.com> <1263978999.4283.823.camel@laptop> <20100120133145.GE4089@wear.picochip.com> <1263994779.4283.1057.camel@laptop> <20100120135553.GA22897@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1263996080.4283.1064.camel@laptop> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:01:20 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > It seems to me userspace might care about the exact platform they're > running on. In my humble opinion, user space should never care about platform it's running on. Interfaces provided by kernel should suffice to implement abstraction layer between user space and hardware. If we abandon that we're back in DOS times. But hey, again, that's just my opinion. -- Best regards, _ _ .o. | Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o ..o | Computer Science, Micha? "mina86" Nazarewicz (o o) ooo +---[mina86 at mina86.com]---[mina86 at jabber.org]---ooO--(_)--Ooo--