Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 13:30:25 EST


On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:47:07AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > That doesn't constitute using it.
>
> Andi, there was a huge amount of discussion about all this in September last
> year (subjects: *markers* and *LTTng*). The outcome of all that was, I
> believe, that the kernel should have a static marker infrastructure.

Only when it's actually useable. A prerequisite for merging it is
having an actual trace transport infrastructure aswell as a few actually
useful tracing modules in the kernel tree.

Let this count as a vote to merge the markers once we have the infrastructure
above ready, it'll be very useful then.
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