On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 17:24 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:49:12 +0000 > Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Which tools process these strings? Has it been verified whether or not > > the tools that process these strings still work fine with this patch > > applied? > > Ideally, tools shouldn't process trace event strings, but I'm sure some > do. :-/ > > Getting libtraceevent out as a library is a high priority of mine, and > hopefully I should get something out in a couple of months. > > Ideally, tools should parse the raw data and then new fields will not > affect them. Hello Steve, The tool I'm most concerned about is blktrace. I'm not sure though how this tool receives event data from the block layer core. Thanks, Bart.
