Messages in this thread |  | | From | richardj_moore@uk ... | Date | Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:27:26 +0000 | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI) |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > It will just help some people who have a unrational aversion against kernel >recompiles and believe in vendor blessed binaries.
An interesting remark Andi, especially in the light of your note to me regarding your use of DProbes - i.e. you'd rather use DProbes to dump out some info from the kernel than recompile it with printks.
I don't have an aversion to recompiling the kernel - it's great fun - I love watching all the meeages go by, waiting with bated breath for a compile error, which never seems to happen. Just like watching the National Lottery, waiting for your own numbers to come up.
To be a little more serious, it's not recompilation that's a problem, its re-working a set of (non-standard) patches together. I'm not that excited by that - I'd rather develop new code than rework old. Anyway for a couple of example scenarios see the response I made to Michael Rothwell. And by the way, I absolutely agree with your approach to kernel problem solving - but wouldn't it be a help if you didn't have to put a large or even moderate effort into working the DProbes patch into some hot-off-the-press version of the kernel?
Richard
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