Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

From: David Newall
Date: Thu Jun 11 2009 - 15:36:23 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.
>

Bad developer, Spot, you only did half the job. Not sure there's much
more one can say.
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