change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS

From	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS
Date	2017-03-16 02:00 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 05:00:50PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> 
> We have uses of CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT as
> well as CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS. Consistently
> use the plurals.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

this rename made me notice that UPROBE_EVENTS still defaults to 'n'.
this is key feature that all distros enable, so having default 'n'
is kinda saying that it's not something that should be turned on
or used widely. which is obviously not the case.
imo it's time to change it to 'y'.
Thoughts?

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change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename  CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 02:00 +0100
  Re: change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename  CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 02:20 +0100
    Re: change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename  CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 03:50 +0100
  Re: change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename  CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 02:20 +0100
    Re: change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename  CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-16 06:40 +0100
    Re: change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename  CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2017-03-16 06:50 +0100
    Re: change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename  CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 07:50 +0100
      Re: change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename  CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 13:40 +0100
    Re: change uprobe_events default ? Was: [PATCH] perf: Rename  CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 08:50 +0100
  [tip:perf/core] uprobes: Default UPROBES_EVENTS to Y tip-bot for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-03-16 17:40 +0100

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