Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

Ray Lee
2009-06-11T17:05:29Z

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Christoph Hellwig<hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:56:18PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> No, once a kernel with this syscall gets released we most certainly
>> intend to maintain its ABI.
>
> So what point is there in keeping it in-tree except making life hell for
> packagers?

Packagers are quite used to taking a single source tree and building
multiple packages out of it. This isn't rocket science. It's the
multiple separate trees that need to be released in lock-step that are
headaches.