Re: [PATCH] Documentation: improving tracepoints.txt

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 05:09:31PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote:
> After reading the tracepoints.txt documentation, I tried to
> follow the instructions to run the sample, but just assigning
> CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACEPOINTS=m wasn't enough to generate the tracepoints
> samples. I also need to set CONFIG_SAMPLES=y, otherwise nothing
> happens.
> 
> So, this silly patch explicit says that CONFIG_SAMPLES should be set to
> compile those files.

Actually raw tracepoints are deprecated.  Both the documentation and the
samples should be removed, with maybe a few tidbits about the consumer
side moved to the trace_event samples because they can still be used
with them.

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