On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:52:34PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > We only deviate from the upstream kernel to fix bugs, backport features > or add code that has a clear path to upstream. We do not deviate from > the upstream kernel to revert a bunch of upstream fixes in order to add > a feature that's been there for half a decade and still isn't upstream, > especially when there's been approximately zero user demand for it to > appear in Fedora. That's a practical attitude, not a hostile or > apathetic one. >
To be fair to all parties, we have been consistently allowing systemtap to be labelled as a Fedora feature, and to drop support for it would be a regression from that point of view. I don't really have an objection to utrace per se, as it is low impact, just the idea of reverting a bunch of inconvenient code to do it. --Kyle