Re: [PATCH 3/3] utrace-based ftrace "process" engine, v2

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> > If testing utrace against its main application requires installation
> > of a complete enterprise distro from a distro [...]
> 
> This has *never* been a requirement.

You guys are getting off a tangent.

Let's go back to the post that started this all.

> The thing is, utrace crashes in Fedora have dominated kerneloops.org 
> for many months, so i'm not sure what to make of the idea of posting 
> a 4000+ lines of core kernel code patchset on the last day of the 
> development cycle, a posting that has carefully avoided the Cc:-ing 
> of affected maintainers ;-)

.. and dammit, I agree 100%. If utrace really shows up in _any_ way on 
kerneloops.org, then I think THE ENTIRE DISCUSSION in this thread is moot. 

I'm not going to take known-bad crap. It's that simple. Don't bother 
posting it, don't bother discussing it, don't bother making excuses for 
it.

			Linus
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