On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 17:24 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > So unless there are really good reasons (for example if > privileges are required) for exposing this functionality via IPC I > think we may want to remove it and make the users (e.g. g-p-m) use the > native kernel interfaces instead.
Two reasons: * You have to be root to enable and disable the kernel tracing * Only one process can access the data at a time > Because.. there's absolutely no need to abstract some abstraction just > for the sake of abstracting it. Especially not if it makes things go > slower, eat more battery and so on. Right, and now it only enables the userspace and kernel tracing if there's something wanting the data. This is exactly the right spot for this kind of data IMHO. Richard. _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
