linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4/jbd2: remove stray markers

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Date:	Wed, 6 May 2009 13:03:54 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4/jbd2: remove stray markers


* Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:

> ext4/jbd2 has a couple of stray markers without any users 
> introduced in commit ba80b1019aa722b24506db1ee755e0bb2f513022 
> (which has a very useless changelog, btw).  Remove them in 
> preparation of removing the markers in favour of the TRACE_EVENT 
> macro (and also because we don't keep dead code around).
> 
> Ted, I think you have some TRAVE_EVENT patches for ext4 pending, 
> but is it okay to queue up this removal in the tracing tree?  That 
> way we can remove the markers leftovers there completely as soon 
> as the 2.6.31 merge window opens.

i think these markers are still in active use, so i'd not remove 
them before Ted's TRACE_EVENT() changes are included. We can/should 
do that in a single topic - in a work flow that suits Ted best.

We can do a -git based special-purpose topic branch in -tip, or we 
can do it in tip/tracing, or we can pull a (-git based) branch from 
Ted. Or we can delay it all to the v2.6.31 merge window. Ted's 
choice.

	Ingo
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