linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools lib traceevent: Introduce pevent

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Message-ID: <1339763129.13377.357.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:25:29 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools lib traceevent: Introduce pevent_strerror

On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 18:04 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

> 
> > If you need the code to be thread safe, have all errors do:
> >
> > 	ret = pevent_foo();
> > 	if (ret < 0) {
> > 		pevent_strerr_val(ret, buf, buflen);
> >
> >
> > For programs that do not need to be thread safe, then:
> >
> > 	ret = pevent_foo();
> > 	if (ret < 0) {
> > 		pevent_strerr(pevent, buf, buflen);
> >
> 
> Do we really need these two? I think having a single API is just
> enough, IMHO.

Hmm, maybe not. I guess I was confused about the need to pass the pevent
into the function. I think we only need the return val. Or is there
other data in the future that you envision will require needing pevent
passed in?

-- Steve


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