On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 05:02:45PM +0000, Chris Kelly wrote: > Hi Greg, > > >That's great, but what are these "events"? Trace data? Debugging stuff? Or "real" data that userspace > >needs to do something with? > > These are instrumentation events that give information on what is > going on inside the driver. They are emitted as a stream if requested > by a user mode application and consumed by that application. They are > not needed for the normal operation of the device but are very useful > during debugging and checking the driver is behaving correctly. The > whole subsystem can be optionally removed in at compile time. So, these are just "tracing" events, right? They should be moved to the tracing infrastructure, as that's what it is there for. So I'd rather not take a patch moving the existing functionality to a new interface, when that interface isn't the correct one. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
