Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:45:37 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] utrace core
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:55:19AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:01:57PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > This adds the utrace facility, a new modular interface in the kernel for
> > implementing user thread tracing and debugging.  This fits on top of the
> > tracehook_* layer, so the new code is well-isolated.
> 
> I'll says this again: tracehook_* is pointless abstraction because
> there will be no second generic tracing facility. The author of second
> one will be asked what is bad in utrace with very high odds.

Yes, I've also said this went the old monolithic utrace was first posted
(probably over a year ago) and it was conveniently ignored..

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