Re: [PATCH] kill markers

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * 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 ?

trace_printk()?

	Ingo
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