From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: improving tracepoints.txt
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:27:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091006202713.GA4663@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254859771-8873-1-git-send-email-leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 05:09:31PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote:
> After reading the tracepoints.txt documentation, I tried to
> follow the instructions to run the sample, but just assigning
> CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACEPOINTS=m wasn't enough to generate the tracepoints
> samples. I also need to set CONFIG_SAMPLES=y, otherwise nothing
> happens.
>
> So, this silly patch explicit says that CONFIG_SAMPLES should be set to
> compile those files.
Actually raw tracepoints are deprecated. Both the documentation and the
samples should be removed, with maybe a few tidbits about the consumer
side moved to the trace_event samples because they can still be used
with them.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-06 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-06 20:09 [PATCH] Documentation: improving tracepoints.txt Breno Leitao
2009-10-06 20:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-06 20:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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