Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751179AbWEIUkv (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 16:40:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751171AbWEIUku (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 16:40:50 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:34565 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751168AbWEIUku (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 16:40:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 22:40:52 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Richard J Moore , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Prasanna S Panchamukhi , suparna@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 3/6] Kprobes: New interfaces for user-space probes Message-ID: <20060509204052.GN3570@stusta.de> References: <20060509093614.GB26953@infradead.org> <20060509151857.GB16332@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 34 On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 01:41:09PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > hch wrote: > > > [...] why the hell do you guys expect to get a huge piele of flaky > > code integrate that slows down pagecaches and adds thousands of > > lines of undebuggable and untestable code without submitting > > something that actually calls it. [...] > > It is reasonable to want to see code that exercises this function. > Until systemtap does, hand-written examples can surely be provided. It's not about examples, it's about in-kernel users. If the code using it is not yet ready for submission, there's no need to add interfaces for it now. > - FChE cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/