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From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: "Vamsi Krishna S ." <vamsi@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>,
	Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	S Vamsikrishna <vamsi_krishna@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4 Ready list - Kernel Hooks
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:22:00 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021024142200.L1421@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021024130835.A30737@in.ibm.com>; from vamsi@in.ibm.com on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:08:35PM +0530

Vamsi Krishna S . wrote:
> So, hooks are designed, placed at well thought-out locations.
> Probes OTOH are mostly ad-hoc.

Yes, my point was that the same (general) mechanism should be
suitable for both types of use. However, ...

>> [kd]probes. I haven't looked at that part yet. Do you have the
>> infrastructure for this ?
>> 
> No, returning from caller will be much harder with [kd]probes.

... this seems to kill my grand unified hook/probe theory :-(

- Werner

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-24 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-23 16:47 2.4 Ready list - Kernel Hooks Richard J Moore
2002-10-23 19:50 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-10-24  7:38   ` Vamsi Krishna S .
2002-10-24 17:22     ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-24 16:38 Richard J Moore
2002-10-24 17:02 ` Greg KH
2002-10-23  8:10 Richard J Moore
2002-10-23 17:09 ` Greg KH
2002-10-22 23:09 Richard J Moore
2002-10-22 23:54 ` Greg KH
2002-10-23 15:28 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-10-23 16:21   ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-10-21 12:24 Richard J Moore
2002-10-22 21:02 ` Werner Almesberger

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