From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add tracepoints to socket api Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:21:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090127.102141.99756103.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090127171857.GB14429@infradead.org> <20090127.092017.40699485.davem@davemloft.net> <20090127172323.GA7635@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nhorman@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: hch@infradead.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:57277 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752474AbZA0SVo (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:21:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090127172323.GA7635@infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:23:23 -0500 > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:20:17AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > We're merging this stuff to solve the chicken and egg > > problem wherein the lttng tree merge is basically > > stalled. > > > > If the individual subsystem annotations go in, the hope > > is that they'll have less to merge and thus it's more likely > > to actually happen. > > I'm rather concerned as I haven't seen any progress on the lttng core > lately. I'd really prefer to have a version in close to mergeable shape > first, that's actively beeing pushed. Adding the instrumentation is > trivial as seen by this small patch, but getting the core right (and who > knows if that involves changing the way actual instrumentation works, it's > not like that hasn't changed n million times yet) is essential. The block layer already merged trace annotations. I therefore see no harm in merging the net bits. If you disagree, either submit a revert of the block layer annotations, or content yourself in being a hypocrite :-)