This is the mail archive of the
systemtap@sourceware.org
mailing list for the systemtap project.
[Bug uprobes/4738] UPROBES_SSOL and URETPROBES must depend on UPROBES in Kconfig
- From: "jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 11 Jul 2007 17:25:37 -0000
- Subject: [Bug uprobes/4738] UPROBES_SSOL and URETPROBES must depend on UPROBES in Kconfig
- References: <20070704064428.4738.ananth@in.ibm.com>
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
------- Additional Comments From jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com 2007-07-11 17:25 -------
(In reply to comment #9)
> > > I disagree. If you follow that caveat, then why aren't KRETPROBES and
> > > JPROBES in Kconfig?
> >
> > According to Dave H, they should be.
>
> I am sorry, I don't agree. If you go by that convention with the kernel,
... as the kernel community seems to be doing...
> you'd have a terribly unmanagable Kconfig.
... and yet Linux survives.
>
> ...
>
> > Again (and again and again), they shouldn't show up as user-configurable options
> > in make *config under any circumstances.
>
> Then simply remove it from Kconfig.
No.
> I am not OK with having it in
> Kconfig if it is not user configurable.
Got it. When we post uprobes to LKML, if there's an outcry about this, and it
turns out Dave H was wrong, and patches are submitted to remove those hundreds
of promptless entries in arch/*/Kconfig, I'll fix uprobes.
--
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |FIXED
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4738
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.