Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:28:09 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes)
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.x] additional kernel event notifications
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jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) wrote:
>
> Any chance of this getting into 2.6?  I for one would like to see it so
> that the performance monitoring tools can work properly without having
> to resort to syscall table patching.

If the code which uses these hooks is included in the kernel.org tree, yes.

If the code which needs the hooks is not in the kernel.org tree then people
can patch the core kernel at the same time as adding the performance
analysis patch.

If the code which needs these hooks is not appropriately licensed then
these hooks basically constitute a GPL bypass and that is not a direction
we wish to be heading in.

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