Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751534AbWCUMQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:16:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751547AbWCUMQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:16:00 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:27368 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751522AbWCUMQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:16:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:15:50 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Richard J Moore Cc: Christoph Hellwig , ak@suse.de, Andrew Morton , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, prasanna@in.ibm.com, suparna@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [2/3 PATCH] Kprobes: User space probes support- readpage hooks Message-ID: <20060321121550.GA7009@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Richard J Moore , ak@suse.de, Andrew Morton , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, prasanna@in.ibm.com, suparna@in.ibm.com References: <20060321112807.GB5460@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 774 Lines: 14 > 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. I know your papers, too. In fact dprobes' RPN program downloads are a far better design than systemtap's generation of kernel code. it's a pity that you gave up on dprobes instead of applying the required work to it and integrate it with other bits of a tracing framework. - 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/