linux-kernel - Re: The emperor is naked: why *comprehensive* static markup belongs in mainline

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Message-ID: <450DF05E.50807@opersys.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:03:26 -0400
From:	Karim Yaghmour <karim@...rsys.com>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...ibm.com>,
	Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@...ibm.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Michel Dagenais <michel.dagenais@...ymtl.ca>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>
Subject: Re: The emperor is naked: why *comprehensive* static markup belongs
 in mainline


Paul Mundt wrote:
> The only issue with this is that the argument list has to be maintained
> in two places.

Not necessarily. LTTng's genevent stuff could be intelligently used here.
Ideally markup is self-contained: it provides code location and context,
and provides any additional information required for postmortem
"rendering" of the event (i.e. how the event is displayed/analyzed).

Karim
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