Re: [PATCH 5/6] tools lib traceevent: Add page_size field to pevent

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 11:08 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> 2013-04-12 (ê), 21:26 -0400, Steven Rostedt:

> I think it only affects trace-cmd as it's the only user that accesses
> raw ring-buffer contents for now.  I found it during writing code also
> accesses the ring buffer (with kbuffer code) - perf ftrace. :)
> 
> But the code is in a very early stage and needs to handle so many things
> before posting to the list.  So I just wanted to post a part of the
> preparation first.

I understand. But people tend to not like things in upstream that has no
user. If Arnaldo wants to include it, that's his decision. I'm just
worried that if it takes a while before your other work gets mainline,
people might start sending patches to remove that code and your stuff
will suddenly break.

-- Steve


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