Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:51:45 -0400
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, utrace-devel@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] utrace-based ftrace "process" engine, v2
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Hi -


On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:34:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> [...]
> It would not be good to merge a large kernel feature which kernel
> developers and testers cannot test, and regression test.

It does not.  Other kernel self-sufficient utrace clients are on their
way, and of course one was just (re)posted.

> If testing utrace against its main application requires installation
> of a complete enterprise distro from a distro [...]

This has *never* been a requirement.


- FChE
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