Re: [PATCH] kill markers

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>]

* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
> 
> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> 
> > * Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event tracer 
> > > > we can kill off the support code.
> > > 
> > > Applied, thanks Christoph!
> > > 
> > > Btw., there's some more marker related bits in the kernel, such as 
> > > scripts/mod/modpost.c - mostly the effects of:
> > > 
> > >   b2e3e65: Linux Kernel Markers: create modpost file
> > > 
> > > I think we want to keep those bits, for those who want to use new 
> > > modpost with an older kernel - but mark them for deprecation.
> > 
> > Just to confirm: this means having a printk-style infrastructure to 
> > prototype tracepoints is not considered useful ?
> 
> trace_printk()?

OK, sounds good !

No objection then :)

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> 	Ingo

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