Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 20/10/2015 17:48, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:37:43 +0200
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> However, it frankly seems a bit academic.  The parsing _will_ work,
>> apart from printing a nonsensical role just like it has always done for
>> the past four years.
> 
> I'm not going to be too picky about it. But things like this may seem
> academic, but it's also what we forget about, and people still use
> 2.6.32 kernels, and this may come back and bite us later.
> 
> But it's more likely to bite you than me, so if you don't think it's
> worth while, then I'm not going to push it.

Thanks.  The role is not going to matter except in really weird cases
and hopefully those are just not there in 2.6.32 kernels.  Thanks also
for educating me so I won't get it wrong in the future!

Paolo