Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11T22:50:39Z

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> That misses the point, at least for the systems as the work now. Having a
> single source package to multiple binaries is easy. Managing setups where
> you push only some of those binaries into the system gets really ugly.

Umm. But what's the problem?

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?

Linus