Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jun 11 2009 - 15:30:44 EST




On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> No. I'm saying that if there's a big overlap with _kernel_ developers
> (which there is), then they can maintain the tree.

To take the oprofile example that decided it for me: the code to actually
support new processors was all done by basically kernel developers. And it
didn't hit user land for almost a year, because the user-land tools didn't
take the patch and propagate it up.

Linus
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/