On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:12:00PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > i just noticed that a couple object files in the xfs makefile depend
> > > on the apparent kernel config variable XFS_TRACE, but that's not set
> > > in any Kconfig file. is that deliberate? thanks.
> > >
> > > rday
> > >
> >
> > Trace is currently only useful when there is something to dump that
> > trace, and today it's KDB... which is not upstream.
> >
> > I'm sure we could get the trace information out in other ways, though.
>
> I've done some hacks for a debugsfs interface. Not sure there's a
> point in merging it, I'd rather wait for the process of having a
> proper kernel trace interface and adopt xfs tracing to it.
whatever floats your boat. :-) i just thought i'd mention that it's a
config var i found with nothing in a Kconfig file to back it up,
that's all.
rday
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