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Message-ID: <20081029083541.GD6364@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:35:41 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: fix current_tracer error return


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> 
> 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 ;-)

it's in tracing/urgent now, so all should be well now.

	Ingo
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