On 2/11/13 9:54 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 09:48:01AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> >> As another thought, did you consider using dynamic debug for this, or is that >> too much trickiness? Might be nice since usually a bug reporter won't have >> a kernel built with CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG . . . > > I had assumed that the long term direction was to use tracepoints, > which also has the advantage of not requiring kernels built with > CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG. I guess dynanmic debug wouldn't either, but yeah, tracepoints make more sense I suppose. > Hmm.... one thing though is if we want bug reporters to use > tracepoints (as opposed to just developers), we'll need to have some > pre-made shell scripts to make it easy for non-developers to enable > tracepoints for various problems. Yep the interface has always been a little clunky. :) Thanks, -Eric > - Ted > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
