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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108
Hi,

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > Some consistency would certainly help: 'my suggested API is not
> > "barely usable" for static tracers but "totally unusable".'
>
> I am really sorry that you were able to misunderstand and misrepresent
> such a simple sentence.

Considering the context, which is not exactly full of support for static
tracer, I think my understanding was and still is quite correct.
Let's take <20060915231419.GA24731@elte.hu>, where you suggest converting
as much possible tracepoints to this API, thus excluding a lot of
information from static tracers.

> this makes it clear that i disagree with adding static markups for
> static tracers - but i of course still agree with static markups for
> _dynamic tracers_. The markups would be totally unusable for static
> tracers because there is no guarantee for the existence of static
> markups _everywhere_: the static markups would come and go, as per the
> "tracepoint maintainance model". Do you understand that or should i
> explain it in more detail?

Well, I rather just wait for the real patch, where you can show your
support for all possible users.

bye, Roman
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