Re: [PATCH 1/5] tracing/events: enable code with EVENT_TRACING notEVENT_TRACER

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sat Apr 18 2009 - 10:19:08 EST



On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING
>
> Hm, my crystal ball predicts many such incidents in future years to
> come.
>
> This:
>
> s/CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER/CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER_PLUGIN
>
> might help. Or not.

The problem is that a plugin is defined (by me anyway) as something in the
"available_tracers" file. The event tracer does not qualify as one. But I
see the confusion with the current naming.

What about:

s/CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER/CONFIG_ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING/

It pretty much says what it does.

??

-- Steve

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