From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934164AbaFCWnO (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2014 18:43:14 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.229]:13737 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932164AbaFCWnM (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2014 18:43:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 18:43:10 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] tools lib traceevent: Add options to plugins Message-ID: <20140603184310.4be2d339@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20140603184154.0a4c031c@gandalf.local.home> References: <20140603032012.088137043@goodmis.org> <20140603032223.896255043@goodmis.org> <87lhtecwph.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> <20140603184154.0a4c031c@gandalf.local.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.118:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 18:41:54 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > > The traceevent plugins allows developers to have their events print out > information that is more advanced than what can be achieved by the > trace event format files. > > As these plugins are used on the userspace side of the tracing tools, it > is only logical that the tools should be able to produce different types > of output for the events. The types of events still need to be defined by > the plugins thus we need a way to pass information from the tool to the > plugin to specify what type of information to be shown. > > Not only does the information need to be passed by the tool to plugin, but > the plugin also requires a way to notify the tool of what options it can > provide. > > This builds the plugin option infrastructure that is taken from trace-cmd > that is used to allow plugins to produce different output based on the > options specified by the tool. > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Jiri, I only sent this patch for v3, as the 1,3,4 are fine. Do you want me to send a full series? Or can you just pull in v2 of patches 1,3 and 4 and then v3 of this one? -- Steve