On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 08:21:18AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have written a plugin in python for parsing the tracing output of some > > > xhci events and i have placed it under the > > > lib/trace-cmd/plugins directory. When i do "trace-cmd report", the > > > plugin is loaded successfully, the corresponding .pyc file is created > > > under the lib/trace-cmd/plugins directory and the tracing output is > > > displayed as expected. > > That does seem like the correct place, and since it works for you ... :) > > > > However, when Sarah follows the same steps, the plugin is not loaded, no > > > .pyc file is created and the printed output is the default. > > Sarah, it sounds like you might not have the python plugin installed. I > know of no distro, for example, that ships the python plugin today, so I > run into this issue a lot. Or, if you did, you probably didn't have > python-dev and/or swig installed when building (though I think if you > have python-dev but not swig it actually errors out, but when you don't > have python-dev it skips python.) I installed trace-cmd after building it from the latest repo. However, I didn't have python-dev installed, so I think that's the problem. I'll work with Darren and get Xenia's instructions for installing her xhci plugin updated once I figure out what's wrong. Sarah Sharp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-trace-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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