On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:18:02 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote:
> There's a change I want to make to the tracing infrastructure that may > require TRACE_SYSTEM be a valid variable name. As '-' can not be used > in a variable, and I found only three cases that it is a TRACE_SYSTEM > name, I want to ask those that are responsible if it is OK to change > them? > > The three systems are: > > #define TRACE_SYSTEM kvm-s390 > #define TRACE_SYSTEM xhci-hcd > #define TRACE_SYSTEM intel-sst > > > I want to replace the '-' with '_'. But this will have a user space > visible affect, which is why I'm inquiring with you. If this will break > any scripts or annoy any users that you know of, I'll need to make a > work around (which would not be hard to do). But if I don't need to do > that, I prefer to just use TRACE_SYSTEM as is. > > I'll just do the work around if there is any user space tool that you > know of that will break with this change. > > The effect is that the directories in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/ > will be different. That is, > > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kvm-s390/ > > will become > > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kvm_s390/ > > And the same for the other two. Is this a problem? The only direct dependency for kvm-s390 I'm aware of is in perf/tests/parse-events.c, added because parsing an event with '-' in the name was broken. Otherwise, I'm not aware of things that should break, excluding local scripts and so on of course. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/