Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030320AbWCUL2d (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:28:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030315AbWCUL2d (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:28:33 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:10369 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030299AbWCUL2c (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:28:32 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:28:07 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: prasanna@in.ibm.com, ak@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net, suparna@in.ibm.com, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2/3 PATCH] Kprobes: User space probes support- readpage hooks Message-ID: <20060321112807.GB5460@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , prasanna@in.ibm.com, ak@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net, suparna@in.ibm.com, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060320060745.GC31091@in.ibm.com> <20060320060931.GD31091@in.ibm.com> <20060320061014.GE31091@in.ibm.com> <20060320025311.419a44e3.akpm@osdl.org> <20060320134839.GF8662@in.ibm.com> <20060320181255.16932b0d.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060320181255.16932b0d.akpm@osdl.org> 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: 531 Lines: 12 On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 06:12:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > What does this entire feature *do*? Why does Linux need it? it's what dtrace does. thus the marketing departments at ibm and redhat decided to copy the features 1:1 instead of thinking what problem they want to solve. - 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/