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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:49:26 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:05:06 -0400
"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:29:07AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > [...]
> > > This misstates the details. What systemtap has out-of-tree is a
> > > list of kernel function names (and parameter names), not
> > > addresses. This list does change somewhat with kernel versions,
> > > but we generally keep up. We do test with vanilla kernels, and
> > > several non-RH distributors test with their kernels. It is a
> > > problem, but it is manageable.
> >
> > yes so please please submit this stuff for mainline inclusion as has
> > been asked quite a few times before.
>
> OK, but I don't recall receiving a clear answer as to how you envision
> this would work. Would you support distribution of some systemtap
> script files in some new subdirectory?
yes absolutely.
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