Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf trace: Update eval_flag() flags array tomatch interrupt.h

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Oct 06 2009 - 11:22:28 EST


On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 05:19:00PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Yeah. We may want to do that by including trace/events/irq.h
> and then use the show_softirq_name() macro defined there.
>
> The rest of the header can be wrapped through no-op macros and
> stub includes.

No, not at all. Performance tracing tools really should not be
dependent on the kernel source. This kind of creep is exactly what I
feared from putting the perf source in the kernel tree.

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