Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:04:09 -0400 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository) |
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* Jeff Garzik (jeff@garzik.org) wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:51:38 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>Since we already have the Instrumentation menu in > >>kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation and instrumentation code all over the > >>kernel tree: > >> > >>arch/*/oprofile/*.c > >>kernel/kprobes.c > >>arch/*/kernel/kprobes.c > >>kernel/marker.c > >>kernel/profile.c > >>kernel/lockdep.c > >>vm/vmstat.c > >>block/blktrace.c > >>drivers/base/power/trace.c > >> > >>We could move them to > >> > >>instrumentation/ > >>arch/*/instrumentation/ > >> > >>Therefore, we could also move the kprobes and marker samples under > >> > >>instrumentation/samples/ > >> > >>Here is a link to a git repository containing the changes, based on > >>2.6.24-rc1: > >> > >>git://ltt.polymtl.ca/linux-2.6-instrumentation.git > >>instrumentation-for-linus > >>(the interesting range is : v2.6.24-rc1..instrumentation-for-linus) > >> > >>Through the gitweb interface: > >>http://ltt.polymtl.ca/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6-instrumentation.git > >> > >>Feedback is appreciated. Sorry for the huge CC list, but the change > >>involves many maintainers. > > > >Two more added. Jeff Garzik and Christoph H. sometimes have some comments > >about this. > > > >It would be helpful if we could get comments on this in the next day > >or two [instead of in 1-2 weeks]. > > "instrumentation" is long, and painful to the fingers :) >
Quoting my post from last week:
> My main concern is that 15 characters long directory name might be > inelegant (however, it only beats Documentation by 2).
And quoting the answer from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu : How so? i n s esc. 4 keystrokes (and still 2 more than D<ESC> ;)
Better suggestions are wery welcome. However, in modern shells, auto-completion is cheap nowadays.
Mathieu
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