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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v1 06/15] perf: export tracepoint events via
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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:48 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> Yeah - and the point of this submission is to allow the discussion of how to 
> achieve these registrations.
> 
> Driver authors will want to have some control - for example the place where 
> the events directory shows up in sysfs within the driver's directory structure 
> - etc.
> 
> But we indeed want to automate it as much as possible.

Perhaps we can create a TRACE_EVENT_PATH() macro, that allows the
developer to specify the path that the event will be seen in sysfs?

-- Steve