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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: remove PERF_SAMPLE_RAW
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:26:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090827132633.GA6058@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251361073.18584.46.camel@twins>

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:17:53AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> seems I forgot lkml...
> 
> ---
> Apparently people think trace-events became an ABI the moment perf
> exported them, regardless what the text surrounding PERF_SAMPLE_RAW said
> about the opaqueness of the data provided.


But people think wrong. This is why Steve has written the format files
of trace events, to have a dynamic ABI specification.


> I'm not willing to make anything trace related into an ABI, hence remove
> this.


Geeze!


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-27 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-27  8:17 [PATCH] perf: remove PERF_SAMPLE_RAW Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-27  8:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-27  9:04   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-27 13:35   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-27 13:26 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]

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