Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:18:11 +0530 | | From | "Abhishek Sagar" <> | | Subject | Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"? |
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On 7/2/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote: > consider this random Kconfig file arch/x86_64/oprofile/Kconfig: > > ============================= > config PROFILING > bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" > help > Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used > by profilers such as OProfile. > > > config OPROFILE > tristate "OProfile system profiling (EXPERIMENTAL)" > depends on PROFILING > help > OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the > whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, > and applications. > > If unsure, say N. > ============================== > > the above is a bit silly. note that both prompts advertise > themselves as "EXPERIMENTAL" even though neither of them has such a > dependency. they *are*, however, part of an submenu that *is* > dependent on EXPERIMENTAL (although you'd never know that just by > looking at that Kconfig file). in short, it's just kind of ugly > hackery at the moment.
Yes but pushing the EXPERIMENTAL check to individual menu members shouldn't be done in a way which leads to an empty menu for any kernel configuration. I suspect that this is why the EXPERIMENTAL check is on the instrumentation menu in the first place.
> my original point was simply that, based on its acceptance, it would > seem kprobes has progressed beyond the EXPERIMENTAL phase, that's all.
It's worth a look on some archs.
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