[OE-core] [PATCH 1/3] latencytop: remove recipe

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2018-02-14 9:46 AM, Mark Asselstine wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 2:27:49 PM EST Randy MacLeod wrote:
>> On 2018-02-08 03:22 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
>>> Last commit and release were in 2009; website is down; it's a dead
>>> project.
>>
>> Add MarkA who might care/know more about latencytop than I do.
> 
> I believe Bruce had already identified LatencyTop as a dead end by the time we
> even did our first release of OVP (I have no recollection of ever including it
> and there are 0 user stories in Rally which would validate my memories on this
> subject). Just in case I have added Bruce to the list. We already had LTTng
> and FTrace, including a mostly dead Intel project was not a priority if I
> recall correctly.
> 

Not everything needs new features constantly, and if they aren't
causing build issues .. I tend to be ok with keeping them around.

There are uses, and users for latencytop.

That being said, I can just add it to meta-realtime, and it can
be dropped from core, since the userbase doesn't justify it in
oe-core itself.

Cheers,

Bruce

> MarkA
> 
>>
>>
>> Is there another package that makes use of the kernel feature?
>> The kernel Kconfig has been tweaked in 2017:
>>
>>      commit a34a766ff96d9e88572e35a45066279e40a85d84
>>      Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com>
>>      Date:   Mon Jul 24 18:36:58 2017 -0500
>>
>>        x86/kconfig: Make it easier to switch to the new ORC unwinder
>>
>> and there are people updating latencytop on github last year:
>>      https://github.com/namhyung/latencytop/commits/master
>> commits on some random github page. That's shocking I know but it
>> does indicate that there's still interest in the tool even if the
>> original authors haven't been maintaining it.
>>
>> ../Randy
>>
>>
>> <snip>
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