On Jan 9, 2008 6:32 AM, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:06:38PM +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > - Is there anything coming to replace register_page_fault_notifier()? > > no. > > > - Has someone found another way to accomplish the same without patching > > the kernel? > > no. > > > - Should I start writing a patch to bring back the notifiers, based on > > the commit that removed them? > > no. > > > People started to complain to me that mmio-trace does not compile for > > 2.6.24. At least the Nouveau project is a regular user of mmio-trace > > for reverse-engineering, and the tool should be easy to use. Therefore > > I would prefer not to force casual contributors to patch their kernels > > as it might be too much for some. I am hoping that 2.6.25, if not > > 2.6.24, would contain a mechanism to accomplish what I need. > > Please make mmio tracing generic enough so it works for every device and > submit it for inclusion as a config option. >
Christoph, it is generic code, it works by patching the module you load and is in no way nvidia specific, I think we should revert your chance as the notifiers have a valid user and one it has been planned to upstream.. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/