I hope `pending tracepoint' which I am working on can be in 7.4
release. Patches are nearly done, and most (70%) of them were sent
for review in this patch set,
[patch 0/8] Download tracepoint locations when tracing is running
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00168.html
For new features like this, I think you need to convince the Global
Maintainers as a group that there is a good reason for waiting.
Reasons could be:
- It's only going to be a few more days at most
- Some other features would not be usable without it
- It's a killer feature