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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] tracing: add event trace infrastructure
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:56:23 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> Since the concept of a kernel tracing facility being 
> self-sufficient and being easy to use is an integral and key 
> concept to ftrace, dont you see why people take your suggestions 
> as a dismissal of the ftrace concept?

Nothing I've suggested in any way makes ftrace hard to use.

If you guys had gone this way, you would not have screwed it up as much
as you're suggesting.

You're being unserious, and this is going nowhere.