Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:41:14 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/2] Trace code and documentation (resend)
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:38:34AM -0700, David Wilder wrote:
> >NACK, don't put code into Documentation/.  Put it into kernel as it's
> >actually useful kernel code.  
> 
> Are you suggesting moving the example code into kernel? Or complaining 
> about example code in /Documentation?

Both.  example code should be integrated with the build system so it
gets built.

> And add clone,exec and exit while you're at it.
> 
> Hu?  A syscall tracer sounds like a nice idea but that is not what I am 
> trying to accomplish.  I will let Systemtap handle that.

Systemtap doesn't help anyone as it's not in the tree.  I haven't even
asked you to provide a full system call tracing modulem but provide at
least one that's useful for a certain use-case (looking at processes)
instead of almost useless code.
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