From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750917AbWFQAGO (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:06:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751557AbWFQAGO (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:06:14 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:6827 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750909AbWFQAGN (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:06:13 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/16] 2.6.17-rc6 perfmon2 patch for review: kernel-level API support (kapi) From: Alan Cox To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Stephane Eranian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, systemtap@sources.redhat.com, wcohen@redhat.com, perfmon@napali.hpl.hp.com In-Reply-To: <20060616145612.GA24812@infradead.org> References: <200606150907.k5F97coF008178@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <20060616135014.GB12657@infradead.org> <20060616140234.GI10034@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <20060616145612.GA24812@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:15:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1150503351.8604.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Gwe, 2006-06-16 am 15:56 +0100, ysgrifennodd Christoph Hellwig: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 07:02:34AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > Well, that's what I initially thought too but there is a need from the SystemTap > > people and given the way they set things up, it is hard to do it from user level. > > Systemtap doesn' matter. Please don't put in useless stuff for their > broken requirements - they're all clueless idiots. Christoph, thank you for your detailed analytical analysis. The kernel list would not be the same without your detailed, well explanation and reasoned rational analyses Alan