[xfs-masters] Re: "CONFIG_XFS_TRACE"?

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>]

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.