From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] markers: modpost
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:37:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071101093725.891F34D04AE@magilla.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Mathieu Desnoyers's message of Wednesday, 31 October 2007 22:46:22 -0400 <20071101024622.GA3343@Krystal>
> If we want to do it safely, I think we should iterate from
> __start___markers to __stop___markers symbols of vmlinux and get the
> pointers to the name/format string pairs.
>
> The same can then be done with modules using the __markers section.
>
> Or maybe is there some reason not to do that ?
It's just rather a pain in the ass, a whole lot more fiddly work.
cf "somewhat crude" and "foreseeable future" in my patch's log entry.
Knock yourself out if you're looking for more tedious hacking to do in
modpost.c, but I say fix it when it breaks.
Thanks,
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 21:13 [patch 0/4] Linux Kernel Markers for 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:13 ` [patch 1/4] Linux Kernel Markers - Architecture Independent Code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-19 11:37 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-19 13:53 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-09-19 20:32 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-21 12:58 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-21 13:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 13:30 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-09-21 13:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-15 19:41 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-10-15 23:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-15 23:50 ` Roland McGrath
2007-10-25 19:17 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-26 14:28 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-11-01 1:06 ` [PATCH] markers: modpost Roland McGrath
2007-11-01 2:46 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-01 9:37 ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2007-11-01 11:24 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-08 19:31 ` David Smith
2007-11-08 19:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-08 19:45 ` David Smith
2007-11-09 16:36 ` David Smith
2007-11-11 23:24 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-19 17:32 ` [patch 1/4] Linux Kernel Markers - Architecture Independent Code Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-19 18:46 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-19 18:50 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-21 0:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-09-21 13:45 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:13 ` [patch 2/4] Linux Kernel Markers - Use instrumentation kconfig menu Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:13 ` [patch 3/4] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 23:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-19 11:18 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:13 ` [patch 4/4] Port of blktrace to the Linux Kernel Markers Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-21 1:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-09-21 13:46 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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