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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 17:17:58 +0100
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On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 16:59 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 4 September 2015 at 10:05, Felipe Tonello <eu@felipetonello.com>
> wrote:
>         oprofileui-server is obsolete since it uses legacy OProfile's
>         'opcontrol'  commands to record a session, instead of operf.
>         It
>         doesn't work on fido builds.
> >
>         Anyone familiar with the code base can tell if it is too much
>         work to
>         update it to use operf?
>
> Yes, its known that it's broken (bug 7054).
>
> It hopefully isn't too much work to update it,

It just needs someone with some glib knowledge to look at it, its
straight forward enough. I did get part way through it before realising
my glib knowledge is lacking (conversion of some sync code to become
async) and I haven't had the time :(.

Cheers,

Richard