On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:38:46PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 13:36 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I'm still interested in seeing a package for turbostat, built from the > > Linux kernel sources. > > > > The linux-tools packages seem to have become transitional packages for > > perf. Any chance of expanding them to include other tools built from > > the kernel sources, such as turbostat? > > I'd be happy to add binary packages for these other tools, so long > as they are being properly maintained upstream. If they don't have > tight kernel version dependencies then no version suffixes or > metapackage would be needed. perf is special in that it often depends > on new kernel features and it is recommended to match the perf userland > and kernel versions. I think we originally expected this to be true of > other tools but that has not been the case.
turbostat shouldn't generally have *tight* version requirements. It'd be nice to have the latest version from the latest kernel sources, but shouldn't need lockstep upgrades.
