Re: [PATCH 2/2] ftrace: show buffer size in kilobytes

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Nov 13 2008 - 00:53:58 EST


On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:09:35 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Impact: change the units of buffer_size to kilobytes
>
> This patch changes the units of the buffer_size file to kilobytes.
> Reading and writing to the file uses kilobytes as units. To help
> users to know what units are used, the output of the file now
> looks like:
>
> # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size
> 1408 (units kilobytes)

I much rather would call the file

buffer_size_kb

and then be done with it... that seems to be the convention lately at
least


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