Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162060AbXECOsk (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:48:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1162061AbXECOsk (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:48:40 -0400 Received: from tomts43.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.110]:49666 "EHLO tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162060AbXECOsj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:48:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:43:26 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, wfg@ustc.edu Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans Message-ID: <20070503144326.GA26864@Krystal> References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501220803.GA27698@Krystal> <20070502104413.GC4392@one.firstfloor.org> <20070502094707.4197ab7a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070502172934.GA17782@infradead.org> <20070502203627.GA18733@Krystal> <20070502135336.6d6d3569.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070502231104.GA26045@Krystal> <20070503080638.GA23000@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070503080638.GA23000@infradead.org> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.4.34-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 10:38:49 up 90 days, 4:45, 4 users, load average: 2.23, 2.00, 1.62 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1384 Lines: 31 * Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org) wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:11:04PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > My statement was probably not clear enough. The actual marker code is > > useful as-is without any further kernel patching required : SystemTAP is > > an example where they use external modules to load probes that can > > connect either to markers or through kprobes. LTTng, in its current state, > > has a mostly modular core that also uses the markers. > > That just mean you have to load an enormous emount of exernal crap > that replaces the missing kernel functionality. It's exactly the > situation we want to avoid. > It makes sense to use -mm to hold the hole usable infrastructure before submitting it to mainline. I will submit my core LTTng patches to Andrew in the following weeks. There is no hurry, in the LTTng perspective, to merge the markers sooner, although they could be useful to other (external) projects meanwhile. Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - 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/