linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] powerpc: ftrace, use create

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Date:	Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:06:43 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] powerpc: ftrace, use create_branch

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 16:58 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> plain text document attachment
> (0004-powerpc-ftrace-use-create_branch.patch)
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> 
> Impact: clean up
> 
> Paul Mackerras pointed out that the code to determine if the branch
> can reach the destination is incorrect. Michael Ellerman suggested
> to pull out the code from create_branch and use that.
> 
> Simply using create_branch is probably the best.

You're right, that's a lot simpler :)

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>

cheers

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