Hi - On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 01:14:36PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > I would like to never merge an ftrace_printk() user... just as I'd like > > > to get rid of every marker. > > > > But why? They solve a problem well enough that Ingo had in effect > > reinvented them on Friday. > > Because after a printk() debug spree, I don't commit them, I toss them > out and keep the fix. Markers solve a problem closer to tracepoints than to debugging printk's. In this context, the main difference between tracepoints is that markers need almost no hand-written glue code of the sort that make up ftrace engines that just trace simple values. Simpler & smaller code for the same output seems like a win. - FChE -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
