Sysprof in rpmfusion

[Hans de Goede]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Hi All,

This is great!

I would really like to see sysprof in rpmfusion. I don't know if it is still 
necessary but some time ago sysprof's kernel part needed a patch to compile 
against newer kernels (I did send it upstream).

That patch is also available here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysprof/+bug/272204/comments/10

Regards,

Hans