Re: 2.4 Ready list - Kernel Hooks

Werner Almesberger (wa@almesberger.net)
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:22:00 -0300


Vamsi Krishna S . wrote:
> So, hooks are designed, placed at well thought-out locations.
> Probes OTOH are mostly ad-hoc.

Yes, my point was that the same (general) mechanism should be
suitable for both types of use. However, ...

>> [kd]probes. I haven't looked at that part yet. Do you have the
>> infrastructure for this ?
>>
> No, returning from caller will be much harder with [kd]probes.

... this seems to kill my grand unified hook/probe theory :-(

- Werner

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