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Message-Id: <1255340583.2675.23.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:43:03 +0100
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: move gfs2 tracepoints to inclue/trace/events dir

Hi,

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 19:45 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:01:16PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to move the gfs2 tracepoints to the the common
> > include/trace/events directory along with all of the other trace events.
> > It makes understanding what tracepoints are available easier, and I see
> > no reason why gfs2 should be different. For example, 'ext4.h' is already
> > in the include/trace/events directory.
> 
> Folks, no.  Drivers and filesystems should be as self-contained as
> possible.  include/trace/ is an extremly bad idea for everything that's
> not actually global kernel functionality.  There's a reason all other
> fs headers have moved out of include/linux, too.
> 

That true, although there is an argument about how much such a header
belongs to tracing and how much it belongs to the subsystem I think.
I'll drop the patch from my tree at the next update, until that can be
resolved,

Steve.


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