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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:54:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] tracing: add event trace infrastructure
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Lai Jiangshan wrote:

> Steven Rostedt ??:
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |   11 ++-
> >  kernel/trace/Kconfig              |    9 ++
> >  kernel/trace/Makefile             |    1 +
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events.c       |  280 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events.h       |   52 +++++++
> >  5 files changed, 352 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> >  create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_events.h
> > 
> 
> Modules can not use this infrastructure,
> will it be implemented in future?

"Give that man a cigar!"  ;-)  (old saying about someone that answers the 
                                game show question correctly).

I was waiting for this question to come up.  The answer is, "Yes", I have 
plans to add implementation to make it work with modules.

-- Steve