On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 16:43 +0100, David Ahern wrote: > >> Seems really similar to what I proposed in the past: Yeah, it wasn't really hard to come with similar conclusions :-) > >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/27/159 > >> > >> Which was rejected. > > > > I took a look at that thread, but just barely, emphasis on that. > > > > Injecting something from userspace, a la ftrace, seems to be something, > > as tglx mentioned, "buried" in that patchset. > > Thomas object to an ioctl buried deep in a patch -- newbie mistake. > > Peter objected to the ioctl https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/1/229 > > It was not userspace injecting random data into the stream but rather > forcing the sample to be generated and added to the stream. I would like to hear from Peter and others. If not here, I'll get them to talk next month on Linux Plumbers :-) Pawel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
