[$] Collaborating with out-of-tree tracers

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by LWN.net at 14 Oct, 13:56 UTC

LTTng creator Mathieu Desnoyers seems a bit trapped in something of a catch-22. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), he led a discussion on the problem he is having in trying to collaborate with other tracing projects (e.g. ftrace, perf) in the kernel. The feedback he has gotten, both over…