Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:36:43 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108 |
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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.
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