linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] tracing: remove boot tracer

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Message-ID: <20100526154918.GA5299@nowhere>
Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 17:49:20 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@...onical.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] tracing: remove boot tracer

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:57:53PM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:17:43PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:46:08PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >> > CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER=y (no performance impact by default)
> >> 
> >> But this tracer is pretty useless. It gives no more information than
> >> debug_initcalls.
> >
> >
> >
> >Yeah it's pretty useless. And these informations can also be displayed
> >through printk on boot so...
> 
> 
> Then just remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>


Queued, thanks!

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