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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:38:54PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Yes, this patch doesn't affect ioctl-based blktrace or ftrace-plugin
> blktrace at all.

Is there any good reason for keeping the ftrace plugin once we have
the fully function event tracer support for the block events?