linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 38/40] tracing: Make tracing_set

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Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:18:00 -0500
From:   Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     rostedt@...dmis.org, tglx@...utronix.de, namhyung@...nel.org,
        vedang.patel@...el.com, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
        joel.opensrc@...il.com, joelaf@...gle.com,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, baohong.liu@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 38/40] tracing: Make tracing_set_clock() non-static

On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 11:18 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Tue,  5 Sep 2017 16:57:50 -0500
> Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Allow tracing code outside of trace.c to access tracing_set_clock().
> > 
> > Some applications may require a particular clock in order to function
> > properly, such as latency calculations.
> > 
> > Also, add an accessor returning the current clock string.
> 
> It seems this patch should be merged in the next patch, which
> is actual consumer of this API.
> 

Yeah, that might make more sense in this case.

Thanks,

Tom