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Re: Marker patch status for 2.6.24
- From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu dot desnoyers at polymtl dot ca>
- To: David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>
- Cc: ltt-dev at shafik dot org, Systemtap List <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:16:21 -0500
- Subject: Re: Marker patch status for 2.6.24
- References: <47559851.7040207@redhat.com>
* David Smith (dsmith@redhat.com) wrote:
> Mathieu,
>
> Because 2.6.24 is at rc3 status, I'm getting a bit worried that
> everything systemtap needs to fully use markers isn't going to be in the
> final 2.6.24. I believe at minimum systemtap needs:
>
> - linux-kernel-markers-create-modpost-file.patch (for the
> Modules.markers file)
>
> - markers-support-multiple-probes.patch (so that multiple clients can
> probe the same marker)
>
> Do you have plans on submitting these soon? Is there anything I can do
> to help?
>
I've posted markers-support-multiple-probes.patch last week and just got
a response from Christoph. If you can reply to this post showing
SystemTAP's interest for it, it would help.
Once this patch is in, I'll post the
linux-kernel-markers-create-modpost-file.patch.
Mathieu
> Thanks.
>
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