Re: [PATCH][1/6] perfctr-2.7.3 for 2.6.7-rc1-mm1: core

[Mikael Pettersson]

Andrew Morton writes:
 > Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >
 > > perfctr-2.7.3 for 2.6.7-rc1-mm1, part 1/6:
 > >
 > 
 > OK, I spent a couple hours on the perfctr code.  It looks sane, although a
 > bit hard to follow.  The above changelog (which is _all_ you gave us) makes
 > this large and complex patch hard to review, hard to understand, hard for
 > others to support.
 > 
 > One can look at the code, sort-of-see what it's doing, query micro-issues,
 > but it is hard (and a bad use of one's time) to try and reverse-engineer
 > the big-picture "how it all hangs together" from the implementation.
 > 
 > We need (especially at this stage in the kernel cycle) at least a couple of
 > pages of design documentation which describes

Speaking of documentation, I have a strong preference for using
LaTeX for all papers, reports, docs, etc, except man pages.
Is that an acceptable format?
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