Re: -mm: strange places for the PERFCTR option

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe_at_csd.uu.se)
Date: 07/21/05

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    Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:20:51 +0200 (MEST)
To: bunk@stusta.de

    Adrian Bunk wrote:
    > On i386, the PERFCTR option is currently available under:
    >
    > Power management options (ACPI, APM)
    > APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS Support
    >
    >
    > On x86_64, the PERFCTR option is currently available under:
    >
    > Executable file formats / Emulation
    >
    >
    > On ppc, the PERFCTR option is currently available under:
    >
    > Processor
    >
    >
    > On ppc64, the PERFCTR option is currently available under:
    >
    > Platform support
    >
    >
    > The ppc and ppc64 places seem to be logical, but the places where it's
    > available on i386 and x86_64 are strange.

    The strange placement on i386 and x86_64 is probably due to patch
    making mistakes. Once I saw patch misapply a Kconfig hunk for
    x86_64 by about 900 lines...

    Feel free to propose a cleanup patch.

    /Mikael
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