Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Updates for 7.2

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:18:26 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But I personally think that debugging should be done by looking at and
> understanding the code. To me, "debugging using printk's" - fancy
> printk's or not - is a failure mode, and soemthing you should be
> quietly ashamed of, instead of using it as some kind of argument for
> making everybody elses kernel worse.

One last note on this. I don't think I ever used "debugging using
printk's" for a design bug. It's always ended up being something like an
off by one issue. That is, looking at the code can easily miss it.

-- Steve