Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Updates for 7.2

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:16:09 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Christ. Why do you want to make the tree worse? Too many inscrutable
> Kconfig options is another one of my pet peeves. Stop making life
> harder for others for some made-up convenience for you.

Honestly, it's not much of an inconvenience for me. I'll simply add a
patch to my quilt queue and add it when I need to do trace_printk()
debugging.

My worry is for the literal 100s of developers that also use
trace_printk() for their workflow and it will suddenly not compile. My
main fear is that they may think it's no longer available. Hopefully
they won't just jump to that conclusion and do a search for the header.
There's nothing around to tell them they now need to add the include.

-- Steve