Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:01:29 -0500
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
       Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, utrace-devel@redhat.com,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: add utrace tree
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Hi -

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:28:34AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> [...]
> > On the other hand, having ptrace/utrace in the -next tree will give it a
> > lot more testing, while any outstanding technical issues are being addressed.
> 
> Including experimental code that is RFC and which is not certain to go 
> upstream is certainly not the purpose of linux-next though.
> [...]

Ingo, you are mistaken.  The utrace core and utrace/ptrace code were
submitted and reviewed together on lkml, and are not considered
experimental.

I know the names may be confusing, but it is unnecessary to bring up
uprobes and other RFC/experimental items.  None of these are included
in the branch I pointed sfr to.

- FChE
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