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Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:24:05 -0700
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Subject: Re: Fix powerTOP regression with 2.6.39-rc5
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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On 5/6/11, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:51 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>
> Um, this is an internal tracepoint. Does this mean that all internal
> data inside the kernel that is exported with trace events are locked
> down?

 it's clearly NOT an internal tracepoint. By definition. It's being
used by powertop.

What part of "reality" vs "your wishes" didn't you understand?

               Linus

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