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Re: Discussion at Linux Foundation Japan Symposium


> > (3) Make no debuginfo version
> 
> > Systemtap always requires kernel debuginfo to use.  Unfortunately,
> > it is hard for users of some distributions to have debuginfo.
> 
> Those distributions ought to be lobbied to improve this situation,
> since there are many non-systemtap uses of debugging data - such as
> debuggers, kernel- and user-space crash dump analysis tools.

I don't agree.

In enterprise usage, crash dump analysis is provided by vendor.
but tapset run on customer.

They use the same OS/kernel. but different person, different machine.




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