linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/13] maps: pagemap, kpagemap, and related cleanups

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Message-ID: <20070413070845.GR2986@holomorphy.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:08:45 -0700
From:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] maps: pagemap, kpagemap, and related cleanups

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> The EM guys are unwilling or unable for support-oriented reasons to
>> deal with anything but unmodified kernels as shipped by distros.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:03:43PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> And I think major distros ship with kprobes enabled, so that is yet
> another reason why systemtap should be considered before adding these
> proc interfaces.

I'll have to check in and see if that will work for them. A lot of this
is about customer/distro/support interaction constraints on how it works
as opposed to purely technical affairs.


-- wli
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