Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750787AbWIOLrN (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:47:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751290AbWIOLrN (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:47:13 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:49571 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750787AbWIOLrM (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:47:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:46:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Alan Cox cc: Tim Bird , Ingo Molnar , Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Tom Zanussi , ltt-dev@shafik.org, Michel Dagenais Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108 In-Reply-To: <1158320406.29932.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20060914033826.GA2194@Krystal> <20060914112718.GA7065@elte.hu> <20060914135548.GA24393@elte.hu> <20060914171320.GB1105@elte.hu> <20060914181557.GA22469@elte.hu> <4509B03A.3070504@am.sony.com> <1158320406.29932.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 967 Lines: 24 Hi, On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Iau, 2006-09-14 am 12:40 -0700, ysgrifennodd Tim Bird: > > It's only zero maintenance overhead for you. Someone has to > > maintain it. The party line for years has been that in-tree > > maintenance is easier than out-of-tree maintenance. > > That misses the entire point. If you have dynamic tracepoints you don't > have any static tracepoints to maintain because you don't need them. This assumes dynamic tracepoints are generally available, which is wrong. This assumes that dynamic tracepoints can't benefit from static source annotations, which is also wrong. He doesn't miss the point at all, dynamic tracepoints don't imply zero maintenance overhead. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/