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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:50:46 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch -tip 1/3] Tracing/ftrace: Relay unhandled entry output
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* Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/9/25 Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>:
> > Oh cool, sounds like I should try linux-next when I can.
> 
> 
> It is on -tip if you want :)
> 
> So, unless someone is opposed to. I will send a patch which define
> three possible values
> for the print_line callback. I will define these values on trace.h
> Why not:
> 
> #define TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE 0
> #define TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED 1
> #define TRACE_TYPE_UNHANDLED 2   => will relay on default functions
> 
> Hmm I'm questionning about the relevance of this kind of patch since 
> the tracing API is in refactoring...

dont worry about that aspect too much, the ring buffer API will be a 
transparent replacement, so try to iterate whatever is there at the 
moment towards perfection :)

	Ingo