From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 23 21:57:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C5A16A40F for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:57:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jb@what-creek.com) Received: from what-creek.com (what-creek.com [66.111.37.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3DC43D73 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:56:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jb@what-creek.com) Received: by what-creek.com (Postfix, from userid 102) id AA0F8140EC03; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:58:51 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:58:51 +0000 From: John Birrell To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061123215851.GA56442@what-creek.com> References: <2b22951e0611212109t69b01400q5eb0ba15b028ce68@mail.gmail.com> <20061122051359.GA42639@what-creek.com> <4564B095.3000002@evilphi.com> <20061122214505.GB48004@what-creek.com> <20061123213659.GA8405@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061123213659.GA8405@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: KDTRACE is gone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:57:38 -0000 On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 10:36:59PM +0100, Stanislaw Halik wrote: > Why isn't importing it as a non-default option acceptable? I believe a > lot of users would be happy to include it in their custom kernels. Because in 5 years time when there is a production server that can't be rebooted, I want the admins to be able to run DTrace. The only way I can guarantee that is by making the ability to load DTrace kernel modules available to everyone. DTrace isn't intended as a toy. -- John Birrell