Re: [2/3 PATCH] Kprobes: User space probes support- readpage hooks

Richard J Moore
2006-03-21T11:46:26Z

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote on 21/03/2006 11:28:07:

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 06:12:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > What does this entire feature *do*? Why does Linux need it?
>
> it's what dtrace does. thus the marketing departments at ibm and redhat
> decided to copy the features 1:1 instead of thinking what problem they
> want to solve.
>

I think you'll find it happened the other way round. Sun openly references
my white papers. They even stole the name of an ancestor to kprobes. But
who cares, it not relevant or particularly interesting whether the chicken
or the egg came first.