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Re: building without module support
- From: Baruch Even <baruch at ev-en dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:44:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: building without module support
- References: <20050827211141.479E0180986@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Roland McGrath wrote:
> kprobes is pretty meaningless without module support, since there aren't
> any kprobe_register calls built into the kernel and thus there is no way to
> use the code but by loading a module.
It's not impossible, during my own work I had code for debugging that is
compiled into the kernel and not as a module.
I do agree that for systemtap purposes having no modules is an unlikely
case.
Baruch