From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755987AbXGBJQs (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:16:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752681AbXGBJQj (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:16:39 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:38998 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751963AbXGBJQi (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:16:38 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:14:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Abhishek Sagar cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , systemtap@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"? In-Reply-To: <863e9df20707020154o5232e44ch37dd55811c377a8f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <863e9df20707020154o5232e44ch37dd55811c377a8f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Abhishek Sagar wrote: > On 7/1/07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > isn't kprobes mature enough to not be considered experimental anymore? > > That would vary from arch to arch. fair enough. however, at the very least, i'm thinking that the entire "Instrumentation support" submenu can be made non-EXPERIMENTAL, while individual entries therein can be EXPERIMENTAL on a choice-by-choice basis or something like that. anyway, others are welcome to play with that as they see fit. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================