From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>,
        chris <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] tracing: Enable tracepoints via module parameters
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Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:
> But the thing about this that bothers me is that there's no way to say,
> "Enable all tracepoints in this module on load". I would like a way to
> do that, but I don't know of a way to do that without modifying the
> module code. Have any ideas? Basically, I would love to have:
>
> insmod foo tracepoints=all
>
> or something and have all tracepoints enabled.

"without modifying the module code"?  Why?  The code isn't that scary,
and this seems useful.

Cheers,
Rusty.

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