On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:42:32 -0700
Frank Rowand [off-list ref] wrote:

And of course the other issue with using tracepoints is the extra space
required to hold the tracepoint info.  With the pr_debug() approach, the
space usage can be easily removed for a production kernel via a config
option.

Now if you are saying you want to be able to enable debugging without
the tracing infrastructure I would agree. As the tracing infrastructure
is large. But I'm working on shrinking it more.

Tracepoints are wonderful technology, but not always the proper tool to
use for debug info.

But if you are going to have tracing enabled regardless, adding a few
more tracepoints isn't going to make the difference.

-- Steve

quoted

If Rob wants to convert printk() style data to trace data (and I can't
convince him otherwise) then I will have further comments on this specific
patch.