Re: PATCH [0/4] perf: clean-up of power events API

Arjan van de Ven
2010-10-08T13:17:29Z

On 10/8/2010 1:38 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> The fundamental thing about tracing/instrumentation is that there are no
> deep ABI needs: it's all about analyzing development kernels (and a few
> select versions that get the enterprise treatment) but otherwise the
> half-life of this kind of information is very short.
>
> So we dont want to tie ourselves down with excessive ABIs.
>

ok I'll start working on a second mechanism then to export information
that applications need ;-(
it'll look a lot like tracing I suppose ;-(