Re: Question about config UPROBES and UPROBE_EVENTS

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 08:30:42 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 14:30:33 +0800
> Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Then, CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS should depend on or select CONFIG_KPROBES?
> > In the current code, CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS depend on CONFIG_KPROBES,
> > the CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS menu is hidden if CONFIG_KPROBES is not set.  
> 
> We could just for consistency. KPROBE_EVENTS would then need to depend on
> HAVE_KPROBES as well. It does add some duplication.
>

I take this back. I don't think there's any reason to have a UPROBES prompt.

If you want UPROBES, you should have UPROBE_EVENTS. They are completely
different than kprobes.

-- Steve