Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758138AbXJaTu3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:50:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753967AbXJaTuQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:50:16 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:47470 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753804AbXJaTuO (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:50:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:49:26 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Mathieu Desnoyers , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Randy Dunlap , hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg , Jens Axboe , Prasanna S Panchamukhi , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Anil S Keshavamurthy , "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Philippe Elie , "William L. Irwin" , Christoph Lameter , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ? Message-ID: <20071031124926.787757f1@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20071031190505.GA12334@redhat.com> References: <4726649A.5020605@garzik.org> <20071029230409.GB16943@Krystal> <472667F3.3000505@garzik.org> <20071030172442.GA4477@Krystal> <20071030185639.GA9077@Krystal> <20071030204043.GA13547@Krystal> <20071031092907.4a026e72@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20071031190505.GA12334@redhat.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1114 Lines: 27 On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:05:06 -0400 "Frank Ch. Eigler" wrote: > Hi - > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:29:07AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > [...] > > > This misstates the details. What systemtap has out-of-tree is a > > > list of kernel function names (and parameter names), not > > > addresses. This list does change somewhat with kernel versions, > > > but we generally keep up. We do test with vanilla kernels, and > > > several non-RH distributors test with their kernels. It is a > > > problem, but it is manageable. > > > > yes so please please submit this stuff for mainline inclusion as has > > been asked quite a few times before. > > OK, but I don't recall receiving a clear answer as to how you envision > this would work. Would you support distribution of some systemtap > script files in some new subdirectory? yes absolutely. - 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/