Re: [PATCH] Doc: process: Getting rid of OProfile url enlisting

Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.workflows,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 8/16/26 1:24 AM, Manuel Ebner wrote:
> On Sun, 2026-08-16 at 03:23 +0530, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
>> Aren't we done with this damn tool from a kernel perspective?? Thought,the link
>> could be removed.
> 
> This would finalize (fix?) this commit 8e9fa2f21151 (oprofiled version
> output line removed from the list)
> 
> Maybe add some reasoning (To reduce it's OS jitter or because it's a leftover link)
> 
> And if it's the way to handle translations remove:
> Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/changes.rst:- <https://oprofile.sf.net/download/>
> Documentation/translations/pt_BR/process/changes.rst:- <https://oprofile.sf.net/download/>
> 
> I have no clue about the technical side, that's why I'm asking:
> Can this be removed aswell?
> arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c:atomic_t nmi_active = ATOMIC_INIT(0);           /* oprofile uses this */

It looks like nmi_active is used in that source file regardless of
oprofile. I'd say No.
Other than the comment itself, which can be deleted if oprofile support
is going (gone) away.

>> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ----
>>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> index 0aa232b117b5..336c07190c9b 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> @@ -556,10 +556,6 @@ Ip-route2
>>
>>  - <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/>
>>
>> -OProfile
>> ---------
>> -
>> -- <https://oprofile.sf.net/download/>
>>
>>  Kernel documentation
>>  ********************
>> --
>> 2.54.0
>>
> 

-- 
~Randy
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