Re: [PATCH 2/4] tracing: add event trace infrastructure

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:08:56 -0500 (EST) Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Gad, what a lot of stuff.
> > 
> > Use strncpy_from_user()?
> > 
> > Use strstrip()?
> > 
> > Why do we care about leading and trailing whitespace - user error!
> 
> This is because i want:
> 
>  cat available_events > set_event
> 
> to work.

:(

Why on earth do we keep on putting all these pretty-printers and
pretty-parsers into the kernel?  I mean, how hard is it for userspace
to read a text file, do some basic substitutions and print it out again?

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