[PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm5 1/3] perfctr: ppc64 arch hooks

Andrew Morton akpm at osdl.org
Fri Apr 1 11:33:02 EST 2005


David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:11:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Mikael Pettersson <mikpe at csd.uu.se> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's a 3-part patch kit which adds a ppc64 driver to perfctr,
> > > written by David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>.
> > 
> > Well that seems like progress.  Where do we feel that we stand wrt
> > preparedness for merging all this up?
> 
> I'm still uneasy about it.  There were sufficient changes made getting
> this one ready to go that I'm not confident there aren't more
> important things to be found.

That's a bit open-ended.  How do we determine whether more things will be
needed?  How do we know when we're done?




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