Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:14:47 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure)
  0.5.108
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
       Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>,
       ltt-dev <ltt-dev@shafik.org>,
       Michel Dagenais <michel.dagenais@polymtl.ca>
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On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:37:51 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> > $ grep KPROBES arch/*/Kconf*
> > arch/i386/Kconfig:config KPROBES
> > arch/ia64/Kconfig:config KPROBES
> > arch/powerpc/Kconfig:config KPROBES
> > arch/sparc64/Kconfig:config KPROBES
> > arch/x86_64/Kconfig:config KPROBES
>
> Send patches. The fact nobody has them implemented on your platform
> isn't a reason to implement something else, quite the reverse in fact.

Yes, but the point is: until that's done you can't claim kprobes is a
valid tracing tool for everyone.

And things like net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c shouldn't be generally implemented
until every arch is supported.

-- 
Chuck
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