[Cluster-devel] Re: move gfs2 tracepoints to inclue/trace/events dir

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Fri Oct 9 23:45:55 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:01:16PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I'd like to move the gfs2 tracepoints to the the common
> include/trace/events directory along with all of the other trace events.
> It makes understanding what tracepoints are available easier, and I see
> no reason why gfs2 should be different. For example, 'ext4.h' is already
> in the include/trace/events directory.

Folks, no.  Drivers and filesystems should be as self-contained as
possible.  include/trace/ is an extremly bad idea for everything that's
not actually global kernel functionality.  There's a reason all other
fs headers have moved out of include/linux, too.




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