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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2.6.38-rc8-tip 0/20]  0: Inode based uprobes
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> IOW, I'm trying to get an understanding of how you expect this feature
> will actually become useful to end users - the kernel patch is only
> part of the story.

One user would be systemtap for user tracing as I understand. Systemtap has a 
userbase (at least I use it, although not for user tracing)

Right now lots of distros apply ugly patchkits to handle this instead,
which is not good (tm).

-Andi
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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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