From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752078Ab0BFGXX (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 01:23:23 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:43182 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751534Ab0BFGXW (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 01:23:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 22:24:30 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, peterz@infradead.org, Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters Message-ID: <20100205222430.1d17a72c@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20100205154748.GA11469@infradead.org> References: <20090925122556.2f8bd939@infradead.org> <20100205154748.GA11469@infradead.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:47:48 -0500 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:25:56PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >From 5db5cd76f3c16c9f6093f54d1ccfb97d04b9a1ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 > > >2001 > > From: Arjan van de Ven > > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:20:57 +0200 > > Subject: [PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to > > get to performance counters > > So this patch got accepted into mainline a while ago, without a user > ever beeing presented, nevermind actually included in mainline. Time > to revert providing these useless exports and dead code? > Frederic had a user near mainline. I have one but it's .35 material at this point... if you want to insist to bounce the patch out now and back in for .35... I don't care but Frederic might. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org