linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 14/28] tracing: Add a trace remote module for testing

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Message-ID: <20251016170645.15416c8a@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:06:45 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>
Cc: mhiramat@...nel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 14/28] tracing: Add a trace remote module for testing

On Fri,  3 Oct 2025 14:38:11 +0100
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> index 918afcc1fcaf..52131d89993c 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> @@ -1244,4 +1244,12 @@ config TRACE_REMOTE
>  config SIMPLE_RING_BUFFER
>  	bool
>  
> +config TRACE_REMOTE_TEST
> +	tristate "Test module for remote tracing"
> +	select TRACE_REMOTE
> +	select SIMPLE_RING_BUFFER
> +	help
> +	  This trace remote includes a ring-buffer writer implementation using
> +	  "simple_ring_buffer". This is solely intending for testing.
> +

Nit, this should go up a few places so that it's with the other "test module" selections.

-- Steve