Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:27:23 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] Porting dynmaic ftrace to PowerPC |
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > Steven Rostedt writes: > > > > > Can I add your Acked-by: to all these patches that I submitted? I'm going > > > to recommit them with a consistent subject (all lower case ppc), but I'm > > > not going to change the patches themselves. > > > > > > Would you two be fine with that? Or at least one of you? > > > > My preference would be for the patches to go through the powerpc tree > > unless there is a good reason for them to go via another tree. > > I have no problem with that. The only thing is that we have a lot of > pending work still in the linux-tip tree, which you may need to pull > in to get these patches working. Well, there's two or three commits > in the generic code that I know the PPC code is dependent on. > > I could give you a list of commits in tip that need to go mainline > first before we can pull in the PPC changes. Then you could wait > till those changes make it into 29 and then you could push the PPC > modifications in from your tree.
note that this inserts a lot of (unnecessary) serialization and a window of non-testing - by all likelyhood this will delay ppc ftrace to v2.6.30 or later kernels.
Ingo
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