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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0810282111000.26466@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:11:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: fix current_tracer error return


On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Fr?d?ric Weisbecker wrote:
> >> Thanks. I guess this bug was there for several days. But since I
> >
> > But this was not a bug :-/
> >
> > I believe I purposely set it that way. The bug was that you did not know
> > that you could enable it with /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled ;-)
> 
> Ah ok. I better understand now.
> But IMHO I guess that would better for developpers who will use
> it to have something directly enabled whithout touching this file at each start.

Yep, and that's why I have no objections with the patch ;-)

-- Steve

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