From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:53:17 +0000 Subject: Re: [Patch 3/3] driver data: add support to blktrace user space code Message-Id: <20081016085317.GX19428@kernel.dk> List-Id: References: <1224146144.8197.8.camel@kitka.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1224146144.8197.8.camel@kitka.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 16 2008, Martin Peschke wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 08:07 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 05 2008, Martin Peschke wrote: > > > From: Stefan Raspl > > > > > > Adds a new type of action 'drv_data' for blktrace to handle binary > > > driver-specific data. Since the data is binary, blkparse will only put it in > > > a binary file, not in the regular human-readable output. > > > > I wonder if that should display some kind of informational message on > > blkparse exit, if you are not dumping binary? Just to notify the user > > that there was extra data available, but that it wasn't dumped. > > Don't know. > > But I can volunteer to send a patch if you think so. I think it would be beneficial, so if you could that would be great ;) -- Jens Axboe