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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:59:31 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] [GIT PULL] tracing: automate output for ftrace
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> Ingo,
> 
> Currently, the output for the format files for the internal ftrace
> plugin entries is done by hand. This becomes difficult to maintain
> and error prone. If a change happens to a structure, it is likely
> that it will not be shown in the format file which binary readers
> of ftrace require.
> 
> This patch series implements the logic that is used by TRACE_EVENT
> to use macros that create the structures and those same macros also
> show the output layout in the format files. This guarantees that the
> structures and the output formats remain in-sync.
> 
> Again, this is based off of tip/tracing/core2
> 
> Please pull the latest tip/tracing/core3 tree, which can be found at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> tip/tracing/core3

Pulled, thanks a lot Steve!

	Ingo