To: perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: perfctr-2.0-pre2 released

perfctr-2.0-pre2 is now available at the usual place:
http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/.
This is primarily intended as a consistent snapshot before
I put the new API in place.

Version 2.0-pre2, 2001-04-07
- Removed automatic inheritance of per-process virtual perfctrs
  across fork(). Unless wait4() is modified, it's difficult to
  communicate the final values back to the parent: the now
  abandoned code did this in a way which made it impossible
  to distinguish one child's final counts from another's.
  Inheritance can be implemented in user-space anyway, so the
  loss is not great. The interface between the driver and the rest
  of the kernel is now smaller and simpler than before.
- Dropped support for kernels older than 2.2.16.
- Preliminary support for the VIA C3 processor.


/ Mikael Pettersson