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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:57:08 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Include PPIN in mce_record tracepoint
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 08:38:53PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Yes, rasdaemon uses libtraceevent (or a copy of it internally) that
> reads the format file to find fields. You can safely add fields to the
> middle of the event structure and the parsing will be just fine.

Should we worry about tools who consume the event "blindly", without the
lib?

I guess no until we break some use case and then we will have to revert.
At least this is what we've done in the past...

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    Boris.

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