On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 20:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > We could add a TRACE_EVENT_ABI() as Ingo has been suggesting. [...] > > That would be rather useful. > > We could still be flexible about experimental tracepoints (they dont > hurt), but apps should stick to ABI bits - or at least not complain when > non-ABI tracepoints change for good reasons. (arbitrary, avoidable > changes are still bad obviously, regardless of the type of the > tracepoint) > > We'd be more stringent with marking tracepoints an ABI. > > So yes, this would be lovely to have. Why? As long as we mandate that apps need to fully parse the format stuff anyway, it doesn't buy us much. _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
