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

Linus Torvalds
2010-10-09T23:20:47Z

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> The difference here compared to all other user interfaces, is that this
> interface has the sole purpose of showing what is happening inside the
> kernel.

Bogus and dishonest argument.

Listen to yourself, and read this thread again.

The thread was about doing some kind of open-source library to allow
non-open-source access to these events, and keeping backwards
compatibility in user space. In fact, that is what you yourself said.

So you claimed it could be backwards-compatible. If that's the case,
then there is no excuse for not being so in the kernel.

You can't have it both ways. Stop the f*cking waffling.

Linus