On 06/20/2011 10:28 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:18:26AM -0700, Josh Stone wrote: > > On 06/20/2011 09:44 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > > > What benefit is there in continuing to carry this thing at all ? > > > Utrace has been an absolute disaster from a merging standpoint. > > > Even Xen didn't take this long to get upstream. > > > > I can't dispute the upstream disappointment, but the obvious benefit is > > enabling uprobes for systemtap. There are a growing number of packages > > building in markers with systemtap-sdt-devel for debugging and tracing, > > so they will expect a way to hook into these. Yes, the impending > > inode-uprobes will be sufficient for this case, but it's a step > > backwards in other respects as well. > > I'm sure both the Fedora systemtap users will be bummed if it stops working, > but the truth is outside of RHEL, and the people who actually work on > systemtap, afaics, no-one gives a damn.
Packagers are adding these markers of their own accord, and in most cases are getting them upstream as well. It is only kernel developers who are so hostile/apathetic/etc. Josh
