Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759941AbXIXQOU (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:14:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756411AbXIXQON (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:14:13 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:46202 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755257AbXIXQOM (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:14:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:13:10 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Wilder , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Patch 1/2] Trace code and documentation (resend) Message-Id: <20070924091310.c306df35.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070924154114.GA25368@infradead.org> References: <1190435014.27362.16.camel@lc4eb748232119.ibm.com> <20070922093508.GC27827@infradead.org> <46F7D9FA.3090108@us.ibm.com> <20070924154114.GA25368@infradead.org> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.6 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 35 On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:41:14 +0100 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. How about if we build the sample files in the Documentation/ tree? with added Kconfig, Makefiles etc. > > 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. --- ~Randy Phaedrus says that Quality is about caring. - 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/