Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:33:06 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc:     Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>, andrey.konovalov@linux.dev,
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        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:57:40 +0100
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:

> Yes, you are right, and it's something I've wondered how to do better
> as well. Let's try to consult tracing maintainers on what the right
> approach is.

I have to go and revisit the config options for CONFIG_FTRACE and
CONFIG_TRACING, as they were added when this all started (back in
2008), and the naming was rather all misnomers back then.

"ftrace" is really for just the function tracing, but CONFIG_FTRACE
really should just be for the function tracing infrastructure, and
perhaps not even include trace events :-/ But at the time it was
created, it was for all the "tracers" (this was added before trace
events).

-- Steve