Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Son of crunch time: the list v1.2. | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:03:20 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 23 October 2002 05:28, Vamsi Krishna S . wrote:
> We are not proposing the entire dprobes patch to be in kernel. It doesn't > have to be. We are proposing for inclusion the "kprobes" patchset at > http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/patches/?project_id=141 which provides > the basic infrastructure in the kernel for setting up and handling > breakpoints automatically in kernel space. Once this small piece is in, > we can implement comprehensive tools like dynamic probes as external > kernel modules without having to patch the kernel.
Okay, so if patch 1 is kprobes itself, what exactly is the status of patches 2-4? (Optional but nice? Cleanups? Or are you pushing as hard for them as for part 1?)
I thought 2-4 paved the way for dprobes, but if you're not trying to get dprobes in...?
Rob
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