Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030295AbWBTQDW (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:03:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030297AbWBTQDW (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:03:22 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49591 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030295AbWBTQDV (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:03:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:03:13 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dave Jones , Christoph Hellwig , Paul Mundt , Greg KH , zanussi@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] relay: Migrate from relayfs to a generic relay API. Message-ID: <20060220160313.GA31846@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Dave Jones , Paul Mundt , Greg KH , zanussi@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060219210733.GA3682@linux-sh.org> <20060219212122.GA7974@redhat.com> <20060219220840.GA14153@infradead.org> <20060219221330.GC7974@redhat.com> <20060219221724.GA14408@infradead.org> <20060219222943.GD7974@redhat.com> <20060219224820.GA14820@infradead.org> <20060219225437.GE7974@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060219225437.GE7974@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1196 Lines: 24 On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:54:37PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:48:20PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:29:43PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > systemtap uses kprobes to export data through relayfs. > > > > systemtap has never been anywhere near mainline despit me telling the > > ibm folks to get the non-braindead parts in, so it simply doesn't matter. > > the kernel bits that matter are generated at runtime. > I don't see anything particularly interesting in the source tree > that is worthwhile submitting. Various helpers to write kprobes in C, instead of the funky limited functionality scripting language of the day. But anyway, if systemtap folks really need a relayfs filesystem type they're totally free under the gpl to grab the code Paul posted to recreate relayfs ontop of kernel/relay.c and include it in their codebase, no need to bloat the kernel tree with unused code. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/