On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:03:20AM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > On Aug 7, 2014, at 11:49 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> > >> This is not a critical bug and in the worst case the code here may > >> cause miss of statistics counter increase. > >> This is why I think it is not worth to backport the patch at all. > > You are right, and if this is just for some random "statistics" file, > > can we just delete the whole function? > > I hope not! > This is used all around the client to tally up various operations executed > counts.
Why would you do that? Why would they care? > The statistic is then used by various userspace monitoring tools. Why not use the in-kernel monitoring tools instead of creating your own? What does userspace do with that information? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
