Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools/xentrace: Remove xentrace_format

2024-04-26 Thread Olaf Hering
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:32:31 +0100 George Dunlap :

> Simple remove xentrace_format, and point people to xenalyze instead.

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Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools/xentrace: Remove xentrace_format

2024-04-26 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 26/04/2024 3:32 pm, George Dunlap wrote:
> xentrace_format was always of limited utility, since trace records
> across pcpus were processed out of order; it was superseded by xenalyze
> over a decade ago.
>
> But for several releases, the `formats` file it has depended on for
> proper operation has not even been included in `make install` (which
> generally means it doesn't get picked up by distros either); yet
> nobody has seemed to complain.
>
> Simple remove xentrace_format, and point people to xenalyze instead.
>
> NB that there is no man page for xenalyze, so the "see also" on the
> xentrace man page is simply removed for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap 

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