[PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in sysfs

Michał Nazarewicz m.nazarewicz at samsung.com
Wed Jan 20 09:09:55 EST 2010


On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:01:20 +0100, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> It seems to me userspace might care about the exact platform they're
> running on.

In my humble opinion, user space should never care about platform it's
running on.  Interfaces provided by kernel should suffice to implement
abstraction layer between user space and hardware.  If we abandon that
we're back in DOS times.  But hey, again, that's just my opinion.

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