linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing, boottrace: Move include/trace/boot.h to include/linux/boottrace.h

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0904131950580.3041@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:51:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Zhaolei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing, boottrace: Move include/trace/boot.h to
 include/linux/boottrace.h


On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > The sane thing would be to put event headers into 
> > > include/trace/events/ and put more generic/utility headers into 
> > > include/trace/.
> > > 
> > > Reserving a full subdirectory for one singular purpose is a needless 
> > > waste of a nice (and unique) name-space resource.
> > 
> > That's fine with me too. I just want the trace points to be easily 
> > seen. But by making a sub directory, wont we need to have all 
> > users of tracepoints do something like:
> > 
> > #include <trace/events/sched.h>
> > 
> > That might be fine too.
> 
> Yes - it would allow the dropping of the annoyingly repetitive 
> _event string from those definition files as well?

The coming patches for modules already does that ;-)

-- Steve

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