To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] bkl tracepoints + filter regex support
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:47:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20090925103806.GA6467@nowhere> (Frederic Weisbecker's message of "Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:38:07 +0200")
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Hi -


Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> writes:

>> > That said, the future plans have evolved, and I'm fine if you have
>> > changed your opinion and think about a better way to develop this.

>> No, but the thing is, IF we're going to freeze this into ABI, then
>> there's no second chances.

> Right. Once it becomes an ioctl, it becomes an ABI :-/

Are y'all convinced that a little ascii language parser/interpreter is
the right thing to put into the kernel, as opposed to bytecode (with a
userspace compiler)?

- FChE
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