Re: [RFC] [PATCH 3/6] Kprobes: New interfaces for user-space probes

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 16:40:28 EST


On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 01:41:09PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>
> hch wrote:
>
> > [...] why the hell do you guys expect to get a huge piele of flaky
> > code integrate that slows down pagecaches and adds thousands of
> > lines of undebuggable and untestable code without submitting
> > something that actually calls it. [...]
>
> It is reasonable to want to see code that exercises this function.
> Until systemtap does, hand-written examples can surely be provided.

It's not about examples, it's about in-kernel users.

If the code using it is not yet ready for submission, there's no need to
add interfaces for it now.

> - FChE

cu
Adrian

--

"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/