Sysprof in rpmfusion

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

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