linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] compat: add some tracing backport work

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Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:11:37 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...jolero.org>
Cc:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lf_driver_backport@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] compat: add some tracing backport work

On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 20:27 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...jolero.org>
> 
> Its not really easy to backport the tracing stuff, but
> lets give it a shot. We should simply review how many
> subsystems we want tracing for and for what target kernels
> we want that enabled for. It doesn't make sense to
> backport tracing if we won't have much users.

Frankly, I don't really want to think about backporting tracing since
it's so complex internally ...

It seems worthwhile though to have macros that disable tracing instead
of having to have a patch.

johannes

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