* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 17:36 -0500, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > > > Or do you (or anyone else) have a better name? > > > > How about renaming DEFINE_EVENT to TRACE_EVENT_CLASS? > > > > DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(y, ...) declare an event-class y > > TRACE_EVENT_CLASS(x, y, ...) define/declare a trace event x from event-class y > > TRACE_EVENT(x, ...) define/declare a trace event x > > > > Thus TRACE_EVENT_* implies that this macro will be expanded > > to both of definition and declaration. > > I don't think separating it is good idea from the viewpoint > > of maintaining code. > > Hmm, what about just: > > TRACE_CLASS - Declares a class > TRACE_CLASS_EVENT - defines an event for said class > TRACE_EVENT - Declares a class and defines an event (as is today) Yep, it looks good! It's self-descriptive and don't require to explain what the thing is doing each time we refer to it. (however I feel a bit sad for Fred, Wilma and Barney) ;) For that semantic, you have my Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Mathieu > > -- Steve > > -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html