From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933555AbeDXN7Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:59:16 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:36424 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757994AbeDXN7J (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:59:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 06:59:00 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Matt Redfearn Cc: James Hogan , Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Huacai Chen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiaxun Yang , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Robert Richter , oprofile-list@lists.sf.net, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] MIPS: Oprofile: Drop support Message-ID: <20180424135900.GA11224@infradead.org> References: <1524574554-7451-1-git-send-email-matt.redfearn@mips.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1524574554-7451-1-git-send-email-matt.redfearn@mips.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.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 Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 01:55:54PM +0100, Matt Redfearn wrote: > The core oprofile code in drivers/oprofile/ has not seeen significant > maintenance other than fixes to changes in other parts of the tree for > the last 5 years at least. It looks as through the perf tool has > more or less superceeded it's functionality. > Additionally the MIPS architecture support has bitrotted to an extent > meaning it is not currently functional. I wonder if time has come to drop oprofile support entirely. (in addition to your patch which seems more urgent)