[Bug translator/4935] support on-the-fly probe enable/disable syntax

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@redhat.com
Tue Nov 20 18:57:00 GMT 2007


Hi,

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
> 
>> I developed a patch for the parser and the elabolator to support
>> this syntax.  Currently, this just translates the next script; [...]
>> This is the first step of this feature, since this patch does not
>> include optimization code.
> 
> It is a fine start.  Please merge & commit it.  Are you planning to
> write some tests & documentation for this new syntax?

Thanks, I'm writing some tests for this syntax and updating a manual.
I think the most part of documents might be fixed after the optimization
is implemented.

> The optimization wor (automagic probe disable/enable operations) will
> be much bigger, and we should share the work.

Indeed. The arm/disarm-probe methods for each kind of probes are
different. So I think we'd better implement it one by one.

> 
> - FChE


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com



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