linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] tools lib traceevent: Add page

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Message-ID: <1365819257.9609.109.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:14:17 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] tools lib traceevent: Add page_size field to pevent

On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 11:08 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> 2013-04-12 (금), 21:26 -0400, Steven Rostedt:

> I think it only affects trace-cmd as it's the only user that accesses
> raw ring-buffer contents for now.  I found it during writing code also
> accesses the ring buffer (with kbuffer code) - perf ftrace. :)
> 
> But the code is in a very early stage and needs to handle so many things
> before posting to the list.  So I just wanted to post a part of the
> preparation first.

I understand. But people tend to not like things in upstream that has no
user. If Arnaldo wants to include it, that's his decision. I'm just
worried that if it takes a while before your other work gets mainline,
people might start sending patches to remove that code and your stuff
will suddenly break.

-- Steve


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