Re: change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Added more people to the CC list.

Em Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 05:58:19PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 05:00:50PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > We have uses of CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT as
> > well as CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS. Consistently
> > use the plurals.
 
> this rename made me notice that UPROBE_EVENTS still defaults to 'n'.
> this is key feature that all distros enable, so having default 'n'
> is kinda saying that it's not something that should be turned on
> or used widely. which is obviously not the case.
> imo it's time to change it to 'y'.
> Thoughts?

Agreed, I also found it strange that it was disabled by default when I
recently did a 'make oldconfig' :-\

- Arnaldo