From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfBN7-0004iG-Ub for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:45:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfBN3-00043k-0T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:45:02 -0400 References: <20170808183306.27474-1-jsnow@redhat.com> <20170808183306.27474-4-jsnow@redhat.com> <45a96c91-8261-d1f7-e312-3d872051e7d8@redhat.com> From: John Snow Message-ID: <1b8cd52e-c12d-533d-a01c-a5602b5bc942@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 16:44:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <45a96c91-8261-d1f7-e312-3d872051e7d8@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/9] IDE: add tracing for data ports List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake , qemu-block@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 08/08/2017 04:30 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/08/2017 01:33 PM, John Snow wrote: >> To be used sparingly, but still interesting in the case of small >> firmwares designed to reproduce bugs in QEMU IDE. > > Is that because the trace would fire so frequently in normal usage that > it will drown the user in noise? > Yeah, and it's of little use for a real guest due to the volume and relative unimportance of what that data actually is >> >> Signed-off-by: John Snow >> --- >> hw/ide/core.c | 12 +++++++++++- >> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> > > Reviewed-by: Eric Blake >