[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] tracing report & API discussion, wireless

[Frank Rowand]

On 06/20/12 00:26, Johannes Berg wrote:
> This may overlap a bit with Jason Wessel's suggestions, but it seems he
> focused more on the actual kernel debugger parts.
> 
> I'd like to report on how we (in Intel Wireless) use event tracing,
> since this seems to be quite different to how many other people use
> tracing (perf, function tracing, etc. aren't all that interesting to
> us.)
> 
> Also in this area I'd like to restart discussions about giving tracing a
> "stable" API. Some customers very much dislike the debugfs requirement
> and it has always made it feel less reliable/future-proof to me.
> Unfortunately, I don't have any proposals for APIs right now.

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You should probably be interested in the plumbers tracing summit:

  http://tracingsummit.org/wiki/TracingSummit2012

-Frank