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From: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:49:52 -0700

> Hey Kris -- so you're referring to me, and I've used DTrace more than
> anyone over the past 15 years, and I don't think anyone has used all
> the different Linux tracers more than I have. I think my opinion has a
> lot of value.

+1

I seriously am against starting to merge all of these userland tracing
tools into the tree.

They belong as separate independant projects, outside of the kernel
tree.