Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:47:42 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] LTTng tracer re-packaged as stand-alone modules |
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:12:13 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> Here is a news that should please Linux distributions which have been > overwhelmed by the size of the LTTng patchset. I have extracted the > LTTng tracer patches from the LTTng kernel tree and repackaged it > into a new "lttng-modules" package. There is still a dependency on > the LTTng kernel tree at the moment, but the objective is to > gradually reduce the size of this 5 years long mainline fork.
Efforts to get rid of forks are always good.
Could you perhaps elaborate a bit what changes you need in mainline (ideally separated in "essential" and "nice to have") and how big the left over patches are?
Or rather how difficult would it be to simply run the LTT userland on top of the tracing code that is in mainline, even at loss of some functionality?
Thanks,
-Andi
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