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On 05/30/2010 05:03 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>> Right.  The tools can fall back to %x/%s based on the structure
>> descriptor if they can't parse the format string.
>>
>>      
> trace-cmd has plugin support to override how to read the format and
> print it out. It now has the ability to write those plugins in python.
>    

Cool.  May make sense to use simpler formatting in the kernel, and use 
trace-cmd plugins for the complicated cases.

It does raise issues with ABIs.  Can trace-cmd read plugins from 
/lib/modules/*?  We can then distribute the plugins with the kernel.

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