Re: [PATCH] kill markers

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Sep 18 2009 - 08:45:48 EST



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

> * Ingo Molnar (mingo@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> >
> > * 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()?
>
> OK, sounds good !
>
> No objection then :)

Thanks! :-)

I've added your:

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyer <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>

to the commit.

Ingo
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