linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/15] [git pull] for tip/tracing/ftrace

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0902171207100.910@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:09:21 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@...g.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] [git pull] for tip/tracing/ftrace


On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Small naming detail: instead of calling it a 'hook' (which 
> really has a bad sound to it for various reasons), how about 
> calling it a 'trigger' and/or a 'callback'?

I started converting the names from hook to trigger, and the name looks 
funny to me. I asked on IRC for opinions and Luis suggested "_probe". I 
think I like that idea.

Ingo, do you agree that "_probe" would be a good substitute for "_hook"?

-- Steve

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