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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@gmail.com>,
	vamsi_krishna@in.ibm.com, prasanna@in.ibm.com,
	suparna@in.ibm.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kprobes /proc entry
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:34:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050111213400.GB18422@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105479077.17592.8.camel@pants.austin.ibm.com>

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:31:17PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 12:14, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:25:38PM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> > > This simple patch adds a new file in /proc, listing every kprobe which
> > > is currently registered in the kernel. This patch is checked against
> > > kernel 2.6.10
> > 
> > No, please do not add extra /proc files to the kernel.  This belongs in
> > /sys, as it has _nothing_ to do with processes.
> 
> Wouldn't this sort of thing be a good candidate for debugfs?  If you're
> messing with kprobes, then aren't you by definition doing kernel
> debugging? :)

That's an even better idea, I like it.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-11 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-10 16:25 [PATCH] Kprobes /proc entry Luca Falavigna
2005-01-10 18:14 ` Greg KH
2005-01-11 21:31   ` Nathan Lynch
2005-01-11 21:34     ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-01-12  0:09       ` Luca Falavigna
2005-01-12  6:35         ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2005-01-12  9:49           ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2005-01-13 23:20       ` Luca Falavigna
2005-01-13 23:34         ` Greg KH
2005-01-17 16:58           ` Luca Falavigna
2005-01-18  6:44             ` Greg KH
2005-01-20 14:13               ` Luca Falavigna
2005-01-14  0:22         ` Stephen Hemminger

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