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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:08:45 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] maps: pagemap, kpagemap, and related cleanups
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> The EM guys are unwilling or unable for support-oriented reasons to
>> deal with anything but unmodified kernels as shipped by distros.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:03:43PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> And I think major distros ship with kprobes enabled, so that is yet
> another reason why systemtap should be considered before adding these
> proc interfaces.

I'll have to check in and see if that will work for them. A lot of this
is about customer/distro/support interaction constraints on how it works
as opposed to purely technical affairs.


-- wli