Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

David Newall
2009-06-11T19:36:18Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> To take the oprofile example that decided it for me: the code to actually
> support new processors was all done by basically kernel developers. And it
> didn't hit user land for almost a year, because the user-land tools didn't
> take the patch and propagate it up.
>

Bad developer, Spot, you only did half the job. Not sure there's much
more one can say.