Re: [PATCH, RFC 0/3] Improvements to the tracing documentation

[Theodore Tso]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:55:42AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> It could be worked around right now by converting it to an integer 
> but i think what we want is native support for kdev_t, together with 
> all the usual convenience forms of specifying it: sda1 should work 
> the same way as 8:1 or 0801. Even /dev/sda1 should be recognized in 
> a filter expression.

Yeah, I could just drop in the integer now, and and just have
TP_printk() display "(8, 2)" instead of "sda2".  It's really a
question of how far we want to take pretty-printing and parsing for
ftrace, I suppose.

But if we are going to have end-users use it, having real
pretty-printed names would be a good thing, IMHO.  Especially if
major/minor numbers start becoming completely random beasts, as some
have proposed.  (I think it's a terrible idea, but I'm clearly not
politically correct.  :-)

						- Ted
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