Re: [rfc] Describe events in a structured way via sysfs

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Tue Jun 22 2010 - 04:17:08 EST


On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 16:04 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:

> > Which really just means that whoever writes the tracepoint needs to
> > provide a struct device for where to put it (at least in the case of
> > driver tracepoints), and then ideally some description of the device
> > also gets put into the ringbuffer.
>
> I'm not familiar with tracepoint code. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> Do you mean that, for example, if iwlwifi_dev_ioread32 event is traced,
> then the "device" info will get put into the ftrace ringbuffer?

No, right now it doesn't.

johannes

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