* Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:53:03 -0700 Vara Prasad <prasadav@us.ibm.com> wrote:
This is part of the effort by the SystemTap team to move pieces of the
project that are generic to mainline.
Yeah. It seems to have been reviewed to death. Is it ready to
be applied yet?
I would just say that this could be seen rather as a driver tracing
interface than a general purpose tracing interface. Therefore, maybe the
name is a bit misleading ? And yes, what is there is good, but it does
not seem to be a replacement for a generic kernel tracer.
My suggestions to turn it into a more suitable interface for a generic
tracer are summarized in this email:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/15/136
Mathieu