From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] Removing or restricting timer_stats
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 08:25:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ab4a1c1-d052-a3ee-eaba-3494ece40773@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jKz54R1Tc+yBRrhJdndXabzKpXid_po9gHMHw5EzYBvdA@mail.gmail.com>
On 4/19/2017 8:01 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>
>>> Arjan said it would break powertop, IIRC.
>>
>> So we broke it in 4.11? That doesn't seem to sound reasonable, how are
>> you getting away with that? :)
>
> tglx seemed to think that the same information was available elsewhere?
tglx was working on patches to make the same information available elsewhere *in the future*.
unless you also backport that work (and wait for powertop to release/etc)...
just backporting the interface break without backporting the new interface... leaves things stuck.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-19 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-18 2:25 [stable] Removing or restricting timer_stats Ben Hutchings
2017-04-18 3:38 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-19 11:50 ` Greg KH
2017-04-19 14:54 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-19 14:57 ` Greg KH
2017-04-19 15:01 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-19 15:18 ` Greg KH
2017-04-19 15:25 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2017-04-19 15:37 ` Greg KH
2017-04-19 16:20 ` Kees Cook
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