On 10/1/2010 2:44 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
What ABI is broken? Trace points have not been declared an ABI. They expose too much of the internals of the system to be considered one. Any tool that can not cope with a tracepoint change is fundamentally broken.
what you are saying that any tool using tracepoints is fundamentally broken...
these tracepoints are used to get information for tools that do power analysis (like powertop). while the absence of these named tracepoints does not cause a crash; these tools have no longer
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