Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin

From	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin
Date	2015-10-20 17:50 +0200
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On 20/10/2015 17:48, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:37:43 +0200
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> However, it frankly seems a bit academic.  The parsing _will_ work,
>> apart from printing a nonsensical role just like it has always done for
>> the past four years.
> 
> I'm not going to be too picky about it. But things like this may seem
> academic, but it's also what we forget about, and people still use
> 2.6.32 kernels, and this may come back and bite us later.
> 
> But it's more likely to bite you than me, so if you don't think it's
> worth while, then I'm not going to push it.

Thanks.  The role is not going to matter except in really weird cases
and hopefully those are just not there in 2.6.32 kernels.  Thanks also
for educating me so I won't get it wrong in the future!

Paolo
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Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> - 2015-10-20 16:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2015-10-20 16:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-10-20 17:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2015-10-20 17:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-10-20 17:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-10-20 17:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> - 2015-10-20 18:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2015-10-20 18:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2015-10-20 17:50 +0200

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