linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST should depend on FTRACE.

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Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:17:32 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Steven Noonan <steven@...inklabs.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST should depend on FTRACE.

* Steven Noonan <steven@...inklabs.net> wrote:

> Doesn't make sense to do an FTRACE startup test when FTRACE isn't even 
> being compiled in.

hm, not sure - there is a bit of a dual personality here: 'ftrace' also 
means the 'function tracer', which is one of the tracers implemented in 
kernel/trace/*. The correct dependency is on CONFIG_TRACING - and 
CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST already depends on that.

	Ingo
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