linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kill markers

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Message-ID: <20090918123846.GB24391@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:38:46 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill markers


* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca> wrote:

> * Ingo Molnar (mingo@...e.hu) wrote:
> > 
> > * Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event tracer 
> > > we can kill off the support code.
> > 
> > Applied, thanks Christoph!
> > 
> > Btw., there's some more marker related bits in the kernel, such as 
> > scripts/mod/modpost.c - mostly the effects of:
> > 
> >   b2e3e65: Linux Kernel Markers: create modpost file
> > 
> > I think we want to keep those bits, for those who want to use new 
> > modpost with an older kernel - but mark them for deprecation.
> 
> Just to confirm: this means having a printk-style infrastructure to 
> prototype tracepoints is not considered useful ?

trace_printk()?

	Ingo
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