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Subject: Re: Unified tracing buffer
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On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 05:03 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Oh, and all commands should start with the namespace.
> 
>   ring_buffer_alloc()
>   ring_buffer_free()
>   ring_buffer_record_event()

I really think we should separate the ringbuffer management from the
event stuff.