Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing/kprobes: move free_trace_probe intounregister_trace_probe

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 19:10 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (2013/06/25 17:15), zhangwei(Jovi) wrote:
> > There have no good reason to call free_trace_probe
> > every time when unregister_trace_probe return 0.
> > 
> > Move free_trace_probe into unregister_trace_probe,
> > make code simpler.
> 
> Sorry, nack. For the symmetrical coding reason, I don't like
> involving "free" and "alloc" into "unregister"/"register"
> functions. I think those should be just another actions.

I totally agree with Masami here. Please do not add "side effects" to
the unregister function.

Thanks,

-- Steve

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