Re: [PATCH 27/38] tools lib traceevent: Add mac80211 plugin

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:57:44 +0200
Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 23:13 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > While doing my synchronization between trace-cmd and lib traceevent, I
> > noticed that the mac80211 driver is quite different.
> > 
> > Johannes, Jiri states that this plugin no longer works with the latest
> > kernels. Is that true?
> 
> It's very well possible, looks like we changed mac80211 to chandefs and
> the plugin still has channel type ... that's actually quite a while ago.
> Given that nobody noticed, I'll have to assume that nobody uses the
> mac80211 plugin ;-)
> 
> Want to just remove it? I'd probably replace it with a python one anyway
> if I ever need it ... the C code is hard to work with even with all the
> macro magic.

You can send a patch to Jiri to remove it from the kernel. If that goes
in, I'll just pull it into trace-cmd's copy.

Thanks,

-- Steve
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