Re: [PATCH 00/05] Linux Kernel Markers - kernel 2.6.20

Andrew Morton
2007-02-15T22:19:35Z

On 15 Feb 2007 10:28:57 -0500
fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) wrote:

>
> akpm wrote:
>
> > [...] And what can I do with these markers? And once I've done it,
> > are there any userspace applications I can use to get the data out
> > in human-usable form? [...]
>
> The LTTng user-space programs use it today. Systemtap used to support
> the earlier marker prototype and will be rapidly ported over to this
> new API upon acceptance.
>

That's good.

It would be beneficial if some people from those projects could spare the
cycles to carefully review and runtime test this code.

Also, I'm not 100% clear on where we ended up with the huge
static-vs-dynamic flamewar. Did everyone end up happy? Is this patchset a
reasonable compromise? Or do we need a rematch?