From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965056AbWECM4t (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 08:56:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030183AbWECM4t (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 08:56:49 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:31904 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965056AbWECM4s (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 08:56:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 05:47:11 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: eranian@hpl.hp.com Cc: perfmon@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: beta of pfmon-3.2 available Message-Id: <20060503054711.b1734c26.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060426145636.GA6819@frankl.hpl.hp.com> References: <20060426145636.GA6819@frankl.hpl.hp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:56:36 -0700 Stephane Eranian wrote: > I have finally released the first beta version of pfmon-3.2. perfctr was almost-ready-for-merge. Then it was decided that perfmon was the way ahead, and perfctr died. And now perfmon isn't making progress in the kernelwards direction (worse, perfmon is getting bigger, thus making a merge harder and harder). So we now have the worst of all worlds. This is a problem. I'd suggest that at this time we should be concentrating on getting perfmon merged up rather than adding more stuff to the out-of-tree version. IOW: please send patches ;) And keep sending them. People want this. Thanks.