From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030967AbXDPVCi (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:02:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030968AbXDPVCi (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:02:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38162 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030967AbXDPVCh (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:02:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:01:59 -0400 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Nick Piggin , William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fche@redhat.com, systemtap@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] maps: pagemap, kpagemap, and related cleanups Message-ID: <20070416210159.GA12538@redhat.com> References: <20070412185723.5a5f0443.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <461EE890.2040601@yahoo.com.au> <20070412193255.62a0b8ed.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <461EEFEC.2010205@yahoo.com.au> <20070413065357.GP2986@holomorphy.com> <461F2BCB.2020200@yahoo.com.au> <20070413075142.GA23822@infradead.org> <461F3961.6030300@yahoo.com.au> <20070413081338.GA27675@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi - On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:36:05PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > and [systemtap] does a lot of really wrong things in it's > > runtime). [...] (Thanks, Christoph, for at least a few specifics. Some of them have already been dealt with in the recent past.) > I must agree with that. Perhaps it would be good if its runtime code > was posted to l-k at some point and reviewed in the standard way > even when it isn't merged. I'll let the runtime's maintainers judge whether this particular venue would be helpful. But is the choice of venue really an obstacle? Everyone who cares is *already* welcome to browse the code (available on CVS, cvsweb, tarballs - would git help?), and critique it (e.g. on our open public mailing list or via bugzilla). http://sourceware.org/systemtap/getinvolved.html - FChE