Re: [RFC] [PATCH 3/6] Kprobes: New interfaces for user-space probes

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 01:41:09PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> hch wrote:
> 
> > [...]  why the hell do you guys expect to get a huge piele of flaky
> > code integrate that slows down pagecaches and adds thousands of
> > lines of undebuggable and untestable code without submitting
> > something that actually calls it. [...]
> 
> It is reasonable to want to see code that exercises this function.
> Until systemtap does, hand-written examples can surely be provided.

It's not about examples, it's about in-kernel users.

If the code using it is not yet ready for submission, there's no need to 
add interfaces for it now.

> - FChE

cu
Adrian

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