From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756472AbYGOXQG (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:16:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753905AbYGOXPz (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:15:55 -0400 Received: from mail-out2.uio.no ([129.240.10.58]:45525 "EHLO mail-out2.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751794AbYGOXPy (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:15:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] dynamic debug v2 - nfs conversion From: Trond Myklebust To: Andrew Morton Cc: jbaron@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com, greg@kroah.com, nick@nick-andrew.net, randy.dunlap@oracle.com In-Reply-To: <1216162567.7981.82.camel@localhost> References: <20080715213241.GC23331@redhat.com> <1216161003.7981.73.camel@localhost> <20080715154323.b7d5f14d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1216162567.7981.82.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:15:45 -0400 Message-Id: <1216163745.7981.90.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Resend: resent X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL=-5, uiobl=NO, uiouri=NO) X-UiO-Scanned: 18B72734C1FAE7FC2727C9F8730E105AA1379987 X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 129.240.10.9 spam_score: -49 maxlevel 200 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 49 total 9205510 max/h 8345 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 18:56 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > The point is that he is changing a semi-official interface for tracing > the NFS kernel activity from userspace. I'd like to know why and how it > is being modified before I can ack it. > > In addition there are several other developers who have a daily interest > in using this interface when helping our users, and who might have > comments. OK. Having looked up the missing patch on gmane, I'd like to know whether or not there is a followup plan to fix up utilities like 'rpcdebug'? Apparently this patch doesn't remove the existing sunrpc sysctl interface, but does circumvent it. The result is that while rpcdebug will happily continue to run, it just won't work any more... Trond