Re: linux-next: add utrace tree

From: Frank Ch. Eigler
Date: Wed Jan 20 2010 - 08:03:02 EST


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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