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From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Bernhard Schiffner <bernhard@schiffner-limbach.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [mmiotrace] Make timestamps as printk() does.
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:11:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B75E023.8060501@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B75D752.1010904@lwfinger.net>

On 02/12/2010 02:33 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 02/07/2010 03:05 PM, Bernhard Schiffner wrote:
>> Hallo,
>>
>> this little patch makes a simple "sort -m" on output gotten from dmesg and  
>> mmiotrace possible.
>> It's a real help at least for me.
>>
>> Bernhard
>> (CC me please, I'am not on this list.)
> 
> NACK. This sort of transformation is best left to local tools.

The tools can be much easier to maintain and use,
if there's consistency in the output format from
the kernel.  There are already tools which read and
process the printk timestamp format (with time in
[sec.usec] format at the beginning of the line).
One is scripts/show-delta.

 -- Tim

=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
=============================


      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-12 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-07 21:05 [mmiotrace] Make timestamps as printk() does Bernhard Schiffner
2010-02-12 22:33 ` Larry Finger
2010-02-12 23:11   ` Tim Bird [this message]

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