Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

Marcel Holtmann
2009-06-11T16:47:18Z

Hi Linus,

> > so do you expect us to merge stuff like ip, iw, rfkill, crda, the WiMAX
> > tools, the Bluetooth ones and whatever we have that are all have the
> > same issues to be merged into the kernel source code as well.
>
> No. Only stuff that I expect to be really close to hardware, and used for
> kernel purposes.

and where exactly do we draw the line? It is just no clear to me.

> > Also please consider the distro point of view. All these distros have
> > already a hard time to keep up with the kernel patches etc. It is a lot
> > easier to update a userspace package then having to provide a patches
> > kernel source.
>
> Feel free to split it all up if it turns out to be stable later.
>
> But I refuse to go through another oprofile.

Point taken on why you wanna do it. No questions asked here. However I
still think it is a bad idea to begin with. The perf tool could very
well has its own repository on git.kernel.org and be maintained side by
side with the kernel.

Regards

Marcel