building without module support

Baruch Even baruch@ev-en.org
Sat Aug 27 21:44:00 GMT 2005


Roland McGrath wrote:
> kprobes is pretty meaningless without module support, since there aren't
> any kprobe_register calls built into the kernel and thus there is no way to
> use the code but by loading a module.

It's not impossible, during my own work I had code for debugging that is
compiled into the kernel and not as a module.

I do agree that for systemtap purposes having no modules is an unlikely
case.

Baruch



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