Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030360AbWCULq0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:46:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030361AbWCULq0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:46:26 -0500 Received: from mtagate4.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.137]:53175 "EHLO mtagate4.uk.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030360AbWCULqZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:46:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060321112807.GB5460@infradead.org> Subject: Re: [2/3 PATCH] Kprobes: User space probes support- readpage hooks Sensitivity: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: ak@suse.de, Andrew Morton , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, prasanna@in.ibm.com, suparna@in.ibm.com X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.1IBM February 19, 2004 Message-ID: From: Richard J Moore Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:42:51 +0000 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D06ML065/06/M/IBM(Release 6.53HF247 | January 6, 2005) at 21/03/2006 11:46:47 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 866 Lines: 26 Christoph Hellwig wrote on 21/03/2006 11:28:07: > 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. > I think you'll find it happened the other way round. Sun openly references my white papers. They even stole the name of an ancestor to kprobes. But who cares, it not relevant or particularly interesting whether the chicken or the egg came first. - 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/