Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf trace: Update eval_flag() flags array tomatch interrupt.h

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:24:19AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 05:22:58PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > I see...
> > Then the only solution I can imagine is to export a debugfs file
> > in the tracing directory that provides this name resolution.
> 
> The format files kinda contain that information, just not in a very
> useful format.  I think the general problem is that the formats exported
> aren't descriptive enough, and fields/flags are just one symptom of
> that.


Well, Steve has posted a whole rewrite of the format files some months ago,
I don't know what's the status of this work. One of the problems is that we
know have tools that support the current format.

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