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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: add trace console
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:18:48AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> As described in the Kconfig entry, logging printk
> output is useful to correlate (existing) printk
> debugging with (existing) tracing. The easiest way
> to achieve this is to register a console that just
> calls trace_printk(), which this module does.

I'd much prefer if we could have it built in all the time, but had a
way to enable it at runtime, just like all the "real" tracepoints.