linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] tools lib traceevent: Add options to plugins

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Message-ID: <20140603184310.4be2d339@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2014 18:43:10 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] tools lib traceevent: Add options to plugins

On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 18:41:54 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> 
> The traceevent plugins allows developers to have their events print out
> information that is more advanced than what can be achieved by the
> trace event format files.
> 
> As these plugins are used on the userspace side of the tracing tools, it
> is only logical that the tools should be able to produce different types
> of output for the events. The types of events still need to be defined by
> the plugins thus we need a way to pass information from the tool to the
> plugin to specify what type of information to be shown.
> 
> Not only does the information need to be passed by the tool to plugin, but
> the plugin also requires a way to notify the tool of what options it can
> provide.
> 
> This builds the plugin option infrastructure that is taken from trace-cmd
> that is used to allow plugins to produce different output based on the
> options specified by the tool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

Jiri,

I only sent this patch for v3, as the 1,3,4 are fine. Do you want me to
send a full series? Or can you just pull in v2 of patches 1,3 and 4 and
then v3 of this one?

-- Steve
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