From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755719AbZESWbc (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 18:31:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752989AbZESWbZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 18:31:25 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.125]:52996 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751361AbZESWbY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 18:31:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 18:31:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: Roland McGrath cc: Jason Baron , Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, peterz@infradead.org, jiayingz@google.com, mbligh@google.com, fche@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] tracepoints: delay argument evaluation In-Reply-To: <20090519222504.AA0ECFC38D@magilla.sf.frob.com> Message-ID: References: <20090519211704.GA3325@Krystal> <20090519221625.GA3205@redhat.com> <20090519222504.AA0ECFC38D@magilla.sf.frob.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 19 May 2009, Roland McGrath wrote: > Wasn't the plan to switch everything to the new TRACE_EVENT macro anyway? > That will be an API change to convert existing tracepoints. Then the > various details of the actual call site code are easy to change inside that > new macro. Unfortunately that is not the case. The call sites are the issues. They are same for both DEFINE_TRACE and TRACE_EVENT. -- Steve