Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965120AbWIQVhS (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:37:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965119AbWIQVhS (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:37:18 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:23997 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965120AbWIQVhQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:37:16 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:36:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Ingo Molnar cc: Nick Piggin , Thomas Gleixner , karim@opersys.com, Andrew Morton , Paul Mundt , Jes Sorensen , Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Tom Zanussi , ltt-dev@shafik.org, Michel Dagenais Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108 In-Reply-To: <20060917205628.GA2145@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20060916230031.GB20180@elte.hu> <20060917084207.GA8738@elte.hu> <20060917152527.GC20225@elte.hu> <450D7EF0.3020805@yahoo.com.au> <20060917192359.GA24016@elte.hu> <20060917205628.GA2145@elte.hu> 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: 1412 Lines: 33 Hi, On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Some consistency would certainly help: 'my suggested API is not > > "barely usable" for static tracers but "totally unusable".' > > I am really sorry that you were able to misunderstand and misrepresent > such a simple sentence. Considering the context, which is not exactly full of support for static tracer, I think my understanding was and still is quite correct. Let's take <20060915231419.GA24731@elte.hu>, where you suggest converting as much possible tracepoints to this API, thus excluding a lot of information from static tracers. > this makes it clear that i disagree with adding static markups for > static tracers - but i of course still agree with static markups for > _dynamic tracers_. The markups would be totally unusable for static > tracers because there is no guarantee for the existence of static > markups _everywhere_: the static markups would come and go, as per the > "tracepoint maintainance model". Do you understand that or should i > explain it in more detail? Well, I rather just wait for the real patch, where you can show your support for all possible users. 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/