[Bug kprobes/4748] Kprobes marked EXPERIMENTAL

[rpjday at mindspring dot com]

------- Additional Comments From rpjday at mindspring dot com  2007-07-07 11:38 -------
Subject: Re:  New: Kprobes marked EXPERIMENTAL

On Fri, 7 Jul 2007, jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com wrote:

> If you run make menuconfig (or a sibling thereof), you'll see that kprobes is
> labeled "EXPERIMENTAL".  Kprobes has been in Linus's kernel since 2004, so this
> label is rather cautious.  One explanation is that KPROBES is in the
> Instrumentation submenu, which itself depends on EXPERIMENTAL.  But does that
> mean we have to explicitly mention it in the 'bool "Kprobes..."' line in
> arch/*/Kconfig?
>
> Here's a related discussion on LKML:
> http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/0069.html

i'm tempted to submit a patch that removes the top-level EXPERIMENTAL
dependency from the Instrumentation menu in all those Kconfig files.
if something is truly experimental, it makes more sense that it be
tagged that way individually on a feature-by-feature basis.

want me to do that as a starting point?

rday


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