Re: [PATCH] tracing: a few fields of struct trace_iterator arezeroed by mistake

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 11:15 -0700, David Sharp wrote:

> Wow. That is a terrible hack. Thanks for noticing it.

Why thank you :-)

It's a hack from doing things that way else where and long ago.

> 
> If I may suggest a way better idea: put these zeroed-in-pipe_read
> members in an embedded anonymous structure, and zero the structure in
> pipe_read.

Sure, sounds like a fix for 3.12.

-- Steve


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