linux-kernel - Re: git pull request for tip/tracing/urgent

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Message-ID: <49937A46.7050602@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:24:22 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: git pull request for tip/tracing/urgent

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> hm ... doh, yes. I think we even had a bug in this area.
> 
> Why is it implemented like this? These semantics seem to make no sense.
> 

They don't, which is why .pushsection/.popsection now exists.

.section/.previous really are rather broken, but like many things with 
broken semantics there is too much that expect the broken semantics now...

	-hpa

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