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

[Namhyung Kim]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 07:10:56PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 3/15/17 7:06 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > 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' :-\
> 
> Debian stretch, Ubuntu 16.10, Fedora 26 all have it enabled. Perhaps it
> should default on.

+1

Archlinux also has it enabled.

Thanks,
Namhyung