Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/19] tracing: Remove "ftrace" from TRACE_EVENT files

[Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>]

Hi Steven,

On 05/14/2015 05:13 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Although the name "ftrace" is used to describe the kernel tracing
> infrastructure, in actuality it is really just the function hook
> infrastructure. The TRACE_EVENT system is more generic and is used
> by tracing, perf and lttng as well as others.
> 
> This gets confusing at times, as it is not consistent in the naming.
> The kernel should only use "ftrace" when describing the function hook
> infrastructure. For trace_events and recording, it really should just
> use "trace".
> 
> This only changes the internal infrastructure code and to make sure
> such a large change has no impact, I tested it by merging this branch
> into linux-next and building an allmodconfig. There were no build
> failures or warnings due to this change set.
> 
> I plan on doing further testing and hopefully get this ready for 4.2.
> When my testing is complete, I'll be pushing this into linux-next.

I compiled each patch individually and did some smoke testing. No
problems found so far. I don't know if that already classifies for the
Tested-by tag, though feel free adding it.

cheers,
daniel