Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11T19:30:40Z

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> No. I'm saying that if there's a big overlap with _kernel_ developers
> (which there is), then they can maintain the tree.

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.

Linus