Re: [PATCH] tracing/markers: make markers select tracepoints

[Ingo Molnar]

* Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Furthermore, trace_mark() exposes that crap like an ABI, now 
> > suppose some distro goes and declares that stable for some 
> > daft reason, imagine the poor sod having to fix something 
> > littered with trace_mark().
> 
> The impression that this is somehow different with tracepoints 
> is mistaken.  Tracepoints are *exactly* as "ABI-like" as 
> markers.

they arent. To the kernel they look like function calls, with no 
ABI properties at all. They can and will change without notice.

	Ingo
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