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[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 17:02:19 -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 17:02 -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > See "Advice from Dave Hansen" (from a code review) in Comment #3. Look at
> > arch/*/Kconfig, and you'll see lots of "config" options with no prompts [...]
>
> What I'm missing is why these should show up as CONFIG_ANYTHING at all.
> Why not just include uretprobes always,
Some people seem to think uretprobes is harder to grok and/or port than one
might suppose. So we provide for the possibility of a port that implements
uprobes but not uretprobes.
> and SSOL automagically as available
> on the platform?
We do. However, as part of the magic, the platform-dependent code must indicate
whether it supports SSOL. The interminable argument is about how to express that.
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