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Re: Discussion at Linux Foundation Japan Symposium
- From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki dot motohiro at jp dot fujitsu dot com>
- To: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- Cc: kosaki dot motohiro at jp dot fujitsu dot com, Satoshi OSHIMA <satoshi dot oshima dot fk at hitachi dot com>, systemtap at sourceware dot org, <mhiramat at redhat dot com>, <hisashi dot hashimoto dot wh at hitachi dot com>, Yumiko SUGITA <yumiko dot sugita dot yf at hitachi dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:58:58 +0900 (JST)
- Subject: Re: Discussion at Linux Foundation Japan Symposium
- References: <494A053D.4030808@hitachi.com> <y0mvdthbh4t.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com>
> > (3) Make no debuginfo version
>
> > Systemtap always requires kernel debuginfo to use. Unfortunately,
> > it is hard for users of some distributions to have debuginfo.
>
> Those distributions ought to be lobbied to improve this situation,
> since there are many non-systemtap uses of debugging data - such as
> debuggers, kernel- and user-space crash dump analysis tools.
I don't agree.
In enterprise usage, crash dump analysis is provided by vendor.
but tapset run on customer.
They use the same OS/kernel. but different person, different machine.