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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:41:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Pulling away from the tracing
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> This is actually something quite different, and new. It sounds similar,
> but its not.

No, I remember the particular scheduler tracepoint discussion.

And the answer remains exactly the same. If some internal detail no
longer exists, just zero out the field.

And no, don't add new, even more specialized fields.

Just get over this discussion already.

              Linus