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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:22:58 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       mingo@elte.hu, rostedt@goodmis.org, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf trace: Update eval_flag() flags array to
	match interrupt.h
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:21:06AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 05:19:00PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Yeah. We may want to do that by including trace/events/irq.h
> > and then use the show_softirq_name() macro defined there.
> > 
> > The rest of the header can be wrapped through no-op macros and
> > stub includes.
> 
> No, not at all.  Performance tracing tools really should not be
> dependent on the kernel source.  This kind of creep is exactly what I
> feared from putting the perf source in the kernel tree.
> 

I see...
Then the only solution I can imagine is to export a debugfs file
in the tracing directory that provides this name resolution.

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