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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/markers: make markers select tracepoints
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* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> > > so I wonder why don't we create linux-tracing new mailing 
> > > list.

Discussions related to upstream Linux tracing are generally 
conducted on lkml.

> > Yes, lets hide it from general view, sounds like a brilliant 
> > plan.
> 
> I guess Kosaki's point is that there may be a disconnect 
> between the work that is done on the LTTng side and the ftrace 
> side. [...]

Could you please list the items we need to extend the tracing 
framework in kernel/tracing/* with so that we can support the 
aspects of LTTng you consider important and upstream-worthy?

As i've mentioned it in the past, i'm definitely interested in 
helping such an effort to further improve Linux tracing.

	Ingo