[ANNOUNCE] GCOV & LCOV Packages Released

[ANNOUNCE] GCOV & LCOV Packages Released

[Subrata Modak]

New GCOV and LCOV Packages(Patches) has been released and the same can 
picked up from:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3382
The older releases has been moved to LCOV-Archives and Gcov-Kernel-Archives.

Regards & Thanks--
Subrata Modak

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GCOV & LCOV Packages Released

[Balbir Singh]

On 22 Aug 2007 12:57:47 +0200, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > New GCOV and LCOV Packages(Patches) has been released and the same can
> > picked up from:
> > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3382
> > The older releases has been moved to LCOV-Archives and Gcov-Kernel-Archives.
>
> Have you considered submitting these patches for review to mainline?
>
> I always thought it was a nice feature that might be mainline
> worthy.
>
> -Andi

I second that, it would be nice to have these features in mainline instead of
maintaining them for every kernel release.

Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GCOV & LCOV Packages Released

[Andi Kleen]

Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> New GCOV and LCOV Packages(Patches) has been released and the same can
> picked up from:
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3382
> The older releases has been moved to LCOV-Archives and Gcov-Kernel-Archives.

Have you considered submitting these patches for review to mainline?

I always thought it was a nice feature that might be mainline
worthy.

-Andi

Re: [Ltp-coverage] [ANNOUNCE] GCOV & LCOV Packages Released

[Peter Oberparleiter]

Balbir Singh wrote:
> On 22 Aug 2007 12:57:47 +0200, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>> Have you considered submitting these patches for review to mainline?
> I second that, it would be nice to have these features in mainline instead of
> maintaining them for every kernel release.

Actually yes, I did and am still considering to do that. Still I feel that there are a few things that need to be changed in the gcov-kernel code before it's suitable for inclusion into mainline (e.g. move from use of /proc to debugfs, use of seqfile mechanism instead of custom code). Part of that work has already been done by yyangcdl@cn.ibm.com and myself but we've stalled about half-way due to a lack of time.

Seeing that there seems to be some support for the idea, I'll try to come up with a patch for further discussion.


Regards,
  Peter Oberparleiter