Re: [PATCH v6 1/6] tracing,x86: Add a TSC trace_clock

From: David Sharp
Date: Mon Oct 15 2012 - 15:05:21 EST


On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 07:05 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:27 AM, David Sharp <dhsharp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > +#include <asm-generic/trace_clock.h>
>>
>> Please use the Kbuild infrastructure ("generic-y += ..." in
>> arch/*/include/asm/Kbuild)
>> instead of adding wrappers around the asm-generic version.
>
> So that's how that's done. Learn something new everyday. Too bad the one
> file I checked (div64.h) doesn't seem to do it for ia64 and others.
>
> Can we please have someone clean up all the archs and remove any *.h
> wrappers and use the kbuild infrastructure instead. That way, when
> another developer goes to look at how this is done, they wont copy the
> wrong method again. (Maybe I'll just do it :-p)
>
> David,
>
> Can you just send an update of this one patch.

Will do. Thanks for the education, Geert. :)

d#
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