From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: + timer_stats-slimmed-down-using-statistics-infrastucture.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:06:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179187579.3654.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46481D18.7080302@de.ibm.com>
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:26 +0200, Martin Peschke wrote:
> >
> >> [root@t2930041 timer_stats]# cat data
> >
> > this patch changes the userspace API though, and breaks PowerTOP :(
>
> Though I think it was unfortunate to add the "old" proc API in 2.6.21.
> timer_stats is clearly labeled as debug stuff in config help, which is why
> debugfs would have been a proper place.
but it's not there, it's in it's current place. And userspace apps
depend on it... so what's the reason to change this after it became
ABI ? If there's a good one I can fix powertop.. but....
oh well I hope you kept the rest of the file format the same ;)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-15 0:08 UTC|newest]
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2007-05-13 18:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-05-13 19:20 ` Cédric Augonnet
2007-05-14 8:26 ` Martin Peschke
2007-05-15 0:06 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-05-15 15:25 ` Martin Peschke
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