From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: make fcheck_files() an exported functions Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:44:34 +0000 Message-ID: <20130212204434.GP4503@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20130109170105.GM3926@htj.dyndns.org> <20130209192447.GE2875@htj.dyndns.org> <20130210001811.GH4503@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20130212174152.GH7348@htj.dyndns.org> <1360693308.21867.54.camel@gandalf.local.home> <1360700468.21867.77.camel@gandalf.local.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, chavey@google.com, Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds To: Steven Rostedt Return-path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:58944 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758784Ab3BLUoh (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:44:37 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1360700468.21867.77.camel@gandalf.local.home> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:21:08PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Thinking about this a little more, we can call it > "enable_unstable_tracepoints" and on boot up have a big banner that > says: > > > ************************************************************** > ************************************************************** > **** Unstable tracepoints enabled. Do not rely on them **** > ************************************************************** > ************************************************************** > > Have the boot up pause for 4 seconds displaying that. That text won't > prevent distros from adding it as default, but the 4 second pause sure > will :-) > > With all the work on fast boot up times, if we purposely slow down the > kernel when enabled, no distro will want these enabled by default. No, they'll just make that delay another kernel option ;-)