Re: Sysprof in rpmfusion

On 12.02.2009 01:04, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > Since some time, the sysprof package > (http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/sysprof/) that used to be in Fedora > is retired due to the dependency on a kernel module which never got > upstreamed nor included in the Fedora kernel. > > In the last year or so, I hoped the situation would improve: there was > an attempt at upstreaming the module that was rejected but some > different code based on the new ftrace subsytem appeared to be > promising. > > Today, it seems we would be lucky to have ftrace in Fedora kernel by > F11, let alone the sysprof new profiling code, so I'm here to see how > we can revive the sysprof package as is (userspace+kernel module) in > RPMFusion. > > The userspace package was actually reviewed before entering Fedora here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=191743 > while the kmod was: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=191745 > > I'd like your advice regarding how to proceed, wrt to whether I should > submit the packages for review: please note the userspace part is > basically the same, I'm fine with importing this without and additional review (our review queue is long enough already), as it comes from Fedora. > while the kmod was adapted to use the new akmod > stuff, so I guess the latter would benefit from a through check... That are just a few small adjustments. I can do handle those. CU knurd