Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

Alan Cox
2009-06-12T07:35:49Z

> Sure, you'd always update the 'kernel-perftool' package (or whatever you'd
> call it) when you update the kernel. But so what? It's going to be tiny.
> And appropriate.
>
> IOW, where's the downside?

Why you need to update the perftool not the kernel, which is very likely
to be the case early on. There are ways for vendors to cope anyway - such
as by deleting the tools directory from their kernel and keeping a
separate perftool package that gets updated now and then from the kernel
tree but is otherwise a fork

Alan