linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: remove tracing_is

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Message-ID: <2024072506-aghast-appointee-7f83@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:52:24 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: remove tracing_is_on export

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 08:31:02AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:36:08 +0200
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > The function tracing_is_on() is only called by in-kernel code, not by
> > any modules, so no need to export it as a symbol at all.
> 
> Hmm, this is part of the debugging code along with:
> 
>  tracing_on();  tracing_off();
> 
> I had it exported in case a module needed to use it in debugging.

What module?  There is no in-kernel user of it as a module that I could
find, what am I missing?

thanks,

greg k-h