linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: improving tracepoints.txt

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Message-ID: <20091006202713.GA4663@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:27:13 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Breno Leitao <leitao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: improving tracepoints.txt

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 05:09:31PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote:
> After reading the tracepoints.txt documentation, I tried to
> follow the instructions to run the sample, but just assigning
> CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACEPOINTS=m wasn't enough to generate the tracepoints
> samples. I also need to set CONFIG_SAMPLES=y, otherwise nothing
> happens.
> 
> So, this silly patch explicit says that CONFIG_SAMPLES should be set to
> compile those files.

Actually raw tracepoints are deprecated.  Both the documentation and the
samples should be removed, with maybe a few tidbits about the consumer
side moved to the trace_event samples because they can still be used
with them.

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