Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ftrace: change the export format of trace_kfree_skb()

From: Xiao Guangrong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:24:42 +0800

David Miller wrote:
> FWIW there are parts I don't like about this change.
> 
> It's just the show_protocol_name() bit, it's designed to always be
> out of date.
> 
> Nobody is going to look at trace/events/skb.h when they add a new
> ETH_P_* value.
> 
> We could make some include/linux/eth_protos.def file, that has
> lines like:
> 
> ETHERNET_PROTOCOL(ETH_P_FOO, N)
> 
> then headers that want to instantiate something like the usual
> ETH_P_FOO defines or this symbolic printing table define
> "ETHERNET_PROTOCOL" to a suitable macro and then include
> linux/eth_protos.def to make the expansions.
> 

Thanks for your review and your nice solution.
I will fix it in next version. ;-)

Thanks,
Xiao