Re: [patch 03/10] Allow userspace applications to use marker.h to parse the markers section in the kernel binary.

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:14:25PM -0500, David Smith wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >NACK.  This shouldn't be includedable from userspace and systemtap people
> >should stop doing crap like that but use kernel infrastructure everyone
> >else uses including runtime kernel code instead of stuffin all kinds of
> >crap into their broken translator.
> 
> Christoph,
> 
> I was using the above information to parse all the available markers in 
> a kernel, but I believe I've found a way where I don't need the marker.h 
> header, so I'm OK with your NACK.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what is the kernel infrastructure you believe I should 
> be using to get a list of all available markers in a kernel?  Note that 
> I also have a requirement to get a list of all available markers in a 
> kernel that isn't the currently running one.

None.  Modules using markers should ship with the kernel or be written
on deman and not beeing created by some unreliable parser.
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