linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ftrace: show buffer size in kilobytes

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Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:54:30 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ftrace: show buffer size in kilobytes

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:09:35 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> Impact: change the units of buffer_size to kilobytes
> 
> This patch changes the units of the buffer_size file to kilobytes.
> Reading and writing to the file uses kilobytes as units. To help
> users to know what units are used, the output of the file now
> looks like:
> 
>   # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size
>   1408 (units kilobytes)

I much rather would call the file

buffer_size_kb

and then be done with it... that seems to be the convention lately at
least


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