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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: LTTng kernel integration roadmap, update
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:59:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081125085904.GA11191@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081125085722.GJ20928@mit.edu>

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:57:22AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> I agree that we should have a text-based output format for kernel
> hackers, as well as a binary high volume format.  I'd argue also that
> since the text-based one would be used by kernel hackers, we don't
> need to worry so much about keeping the format absolutely stable from
> kernel version to kernel version (and it's not worth it to add version
> tags to the text stream); people who care about a long-term, stable
> interface should use the binary output format, IMHO.  
> 
> I'm not sure everyone will agree with me, but I think it helps to
> simplify the effort behind the text-based output.

Yes, agreed.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-25  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-24 11:28 LTTng kernel integration roadmap, update Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-24 11:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-24 12:20   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-24 16:58     ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-24 20:46       ` [ltt-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-25  7:09         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-25 13:57       ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-25 15:40         ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-11-25 17:59           ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-25 19:09             ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-25 19:30             ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-11-28 12:56           ` [ltt-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-28 12:58         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-25  8:24     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-25  8:47       ` [ltt-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-25  8:57       ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-25  8:59         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-12-04  3:49 ` Lai Jiangshan

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