On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 20:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote: > > > We could add a TRACE_EVENT_ABI() as Ingo has been suggesting. [...] > > That would be rather useful. > > We could still be flexible about experimental tracepoints (they dont > hurt), but apps should stick to ABI bits - or at least not complain when > non-ABI tracepoints change for good reasons. (arbitrary, avoidable > changes are still bad obviously, regardless of the type of the > tracepoint) > > We'd be more stringent with marking tracepoints an ABI. > > So yes, this would be lovely to have.
Why? As long as we mandate that apps need to fully parse the format stuff anyway, it doesn't buy us much. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
