linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 0/3] tracing - adding common method for reading/parsing user input

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Date:	Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:01:39 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	jolsa@...hat.com
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/3] tracing - adding common method for
 reading/parsing user input

On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 03:12 +0200, jolsa@...hat.com wrote:
> As 3 different places for 4 user input files were using the same way
> of reading and parsing user's input, I made one common routine to be
> used. 
> 
> The mentioned files are:
> 	set_graph_function
> 	set_event
> 	set_ftrace_filter
> 	set_ftrace_notrace
> 
> wbr,
> jirka
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>

Looking back, this is pretty much exactly what I did back in February:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/25/385

The difference is that I wanted this to be a generic feature for things
outside of tracing to use. I may just take my old patch and put the code
in trace.c like you did.

Thanks,

-- Steve


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