Re: [PATCH] kill markers

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Ingo Molnar (mingo@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> * Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event tracer 
> > we can kill off the support code.
> 
> Applied, thanks Christoph!
> 
> Btw., there's some more marker related bits in the kernel, such as 
> scripts/mod/modpost.c - mostly the effects of:
> 
>   b2e3e65: Linux Kernel Markers: create modpost file
> 
> I think we want to keep those bits, for those who want to use new 
> modpost with an older kernel - but mark them for deprecation.
> 

Just to confirm: this means having a printk-style infrastructure to
prototype tracepoints is not considered useful ?

Mathieu


> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo

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