Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/19] perf: Add ability to attach user level registers dump to sample | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:50:58 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 12:45 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > It would be a tedious endeavour since you'd need to have both output > > paths available for a good while, but it might be worth it in the long > > run depending on how painful the current format becomes. > > True. What we don't know however, it how many other tools are out > there using the kernel API directly.
Right.. but if you leave the old stuff in for say 2 years and start emitting a warning on using the old stuff after 1 year.. give or take a few years we should be able to get the old stuff deprecated and removed.
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