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Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"?
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- To: Abhishek Sagar <sagar dot abhishek at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:14:35 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"?
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707011204580.32355@localhost.localdomain> <863e9df20707020154o5232e44ch37dd55811c377a8f@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Abhishek Sagar wrote:
> On 7/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > isn't kprobes mature enough to not be considered experimental anymore?
>
> That would vary from arch to arch.
fair enough. however, at the very least, i'm thinking that the entire
"Instrumentation support" submenu can be made non-EXPERIMENTAL, while
individual entries therein can be EXPERIMENTAL on a choice-by-choice
basis or something like that.
anyway, others are welcome to play with that as they see fit.
rday
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