From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20403 invoked by alias); 15 Feb 2007 07:12:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 20390 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Feb 2007 07:12:54 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.osdl.org (HELO smtp.osdl.org) (65.172.181.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:12:48 +0000 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l1F7C3hB000860 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:12:09 -0800 Received: from box (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with SMTP id l1F7C1G3022648; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:12:01 -0800 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:12:00 -0000 From: Andrew Morton To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , systemtap@sources.redhat.com, ltt-dev@shafik.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/05] Linux Kernel Markers - kernel 2.6.20 Message-Id: <20070214231201.20918c6b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1171224207118-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> References: <1171224207118-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.117__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.176 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q1/txt/msg00338.txt.bz2 On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:03:22 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > You will find, in the following posts, the latest revision of the Linux Kernel > Markers. And what can I do with these markers? And once I've done it, are there any userspace applications I can use to get the data out in human-usable form? It seems to me that these patches aren't sequenced correctly - the kernel won't build at each step of the patch sequence. Maybe I'm mistaken in that. We prefer it this way so that people don't hit wont-compile points when doing bisection searches.