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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:16:37 +0800
From: Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [REPOST PATCH] ftrace: Remove the unused variant
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On 09/15/15 at 01:01pm, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:32:02 +0800
> Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
> > There is one more confusion. Is it valuable to export such info to
> > userspace? What does user do, if kernel exports this?
> 
> Nothing. The dyn_ftrace_total_info is purely for debugging ftrace. It's
> something I use.
> 

hmmm...

Thanks. I don't insist for this patch, if you want to export this
variant to userspace.

Thanks
Minfei