Re: anyone including <linux/perf_counter.h>?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Kyle McMartin wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:42:50AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   just prepping to run my cleanup suggestion scripts after the merge
> > window closes, quick test run on some scripts and ran across the fact
> > that no one appears to be including <linux/perf_counter.h>.
> >
> >   any value to that file?  just curious.  much more pedantry after the
> > merge window, of course.
>
> See the comment at the top, it's being provided to provide the old
> names to userspace for a short time, now that the functionality has
> been renamed to perf_events.

  but if it's supposed to be providing info to user-space, shouldn't
it be *exported* to user space?  it's not listed in
include/linux/Kbuild.  or am i misunderstanding?

rday
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