Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository)

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>]

* Jeff Garzik (jeff@garzik.org) wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:51:38 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Since we already have the Instrumentation menu in
> >>kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation and instrumentation code all over the
> >>kernel tree:
> >>
> >>arch/*/oprofile/*.c
> >>kernel/kprobes.c
> >>arch/*/kernel/kprobes.c
> >>kernel/marker.c
> >>kernel/profile.c
> >>kernel/lockdep.c
> >>vm/vmstat.c
> >>block/blktrace.c
> >>drivers/base/power/trace.c
> >>
> >>We could move them to
> >>
> >>instrumentation/
> >>arch/*/instrumentation/
> >>
> >>Therefore, we could also move the kprobes and marker samples under
> >>
> >>instrumentation/samples/
> >>
> >>Here is a link to a git repository containing the changes, based on
> >>2.6.24-rc1:
> >>
> >>git://ltt.polymtl.ca/linux-2.6-instrumentation.git 
> >>instrumentation-for-linus
> >>(the interesting range is : v2.6.24-rc1..instrumentation-for-linus)
> >>
> >>Through the gitweb interface:
> >>http://ltt.polymtl.ca/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6-instrumentation.git
> >>
> >>Feedback is appreciated. Sorry for the huge CC list, but the change
> >>involves many maintainers.
> >
> >Two more added.  Jeff Garzik and Christoph H. sometimes have some comments
> >about this.
> >
> >It would be helpful if we could get comments on this in the next day
> >or two [instead of in 1-2 weeks].
> 
> "instrumentation" is long, and painful to the fingers :)
> 

Quoting my post from last week:

> My main concern is that 15 characters long directory name might be
> inelegant (however, it only beats Documentation by 2).

And quoting the answer from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu :
How so?  i n s esc.  4 keystrokes (and still 2 more than D<ESC> ;)



Better suggestions are wery welcome. However, in modern shells,
auto-completion is cheap nowadays.

Mathieu


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