From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932760Ab1EFVOY (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2011 17:14:24 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:36928 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932268Ab1EFVOX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2011 17:14:23 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=ZtuXOl23UuD1yoJUTgnZ6i6Z5VPlPhPMWCeUNtN8OGA= c=1 sm=0 a=UZYI7n2t75YA:10 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=OPBmh+XkhLl+Enan7BmTLg==:17 a=zjkQRuOjSO8sb-cBxSUA:9 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=OPBmh+XkhLl+Enan7BmTLg==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 67.242.120.143 Subject: Re: Fix powerTOP regression with 2.6.39-rc5 From: Steven Rostedt To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel , Frederic Weisbecker , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: References: <4DC45537.6070609@linux.intel.com> <1304713252.25414.2532.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 17:14:21 -0400 Message-ID: <1304716461.25414.2542.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:51 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > If you made an interface that can be used without parsing the > interface description, then we're stuck with the interface. Theory > simply doesn't matter. Note, at last Kernel Summit, you pointed at my slide of the trace event ASCII format, and stated, "That's the ABI". What happend now? -- Steve