Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository)

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:51:38 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since we already have the Instrumentation menu in
>> kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation and instrumentation code all over the
>> kernel tree:
>>
>> arch/*/oprofile/*.c
>> kernel/kprobes.c
>> arch/*/kernel/kprobes.c
>> kernel/marker.c
>> kernel/profile.c
>> kernel/lockdep.c
>> vm/vmstat.c
>> block/blktrace.c
>> drivers/base/power/trace.c
>>
>> We could move them to
>>
>> instrumentation/
>> arch/*/instrumentation/
>>
>> Therefore, we could also move the kprobes and marker samples under
>>
>> instrumentation/samples/
>>
>> Here is a link to a git repository containing the changes, based on
>> 2.6.24-rc1:
>>
>> git://ltt.polymtl.ca/linux-2.6-instrumentation.git instrumentation-for-linus
>> (the interesting range is : v2.6.24-rc1..instrumentation-for-linus)
>>
>> Through the gitweb interface:
>> http://ltt.polymtl.ca/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6-instrumentation.git
>>
>> Feedback is appreciated. Sorry for the huge CC list, but the change
>> involves many maintainers.
> 
> Two more added.  Jeff Garzik and Christoph H. sometimes have some comments
> about this.
> 
> It would be helpful if we could get comments on this in the next day
> or two [instead of in 1-2 weeks].

"instrumentation" is long, and painful to the fingers :)

	Jeff