Re: [PATCH 0/5] relay: Migrate from relayfs to a generic relay API.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 11:01:07 EST


On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:54:37PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:48:20PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:29:43PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > systemtap uses kprobes to export data through relayfs.
> >
> > systemtap has never been anywhere near mainline despit me telling the
> > ibm folks to get the non-braindead parts in, so it simply doesn't matter.
>
> the kernel bits that matter are generated at runtime.
> I don't see anything particularly interesting in the source tree
> that is worthwhile submitting.

Various helpers to write kprobes in C, instead of the funky limited
functionality scripting language of the day.

But anyway, if systemtap folks really need a relayfs filesystem type
they're totally free under the gpl to grab the code Paul posted to
recreate relayfs ontop of kernel/relay.c and include it in their codebase,
no need to bloat the kernel tree with unused code.
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