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Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:29:10 +0900
From:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Josh Stone <jistone@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@...gle.com>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] tracing: Rename TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE->_TRACEPOINT

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:42:45AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:58:42PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > This thread flag is no longer specific to just ftrace, so 
> > > > > TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT may be a more apt name.
> > > > 
> > > > Adding Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> in Cc, the sh tree also 
> > > > has the syscalls tracing support (in a seperate branch).
> > > 
> > > Btw., is there an URI for that separate branch?
> > > 
> > > 	Ingo
> > 
> > I guess it's:
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6.git \
> > 	sh/ftrace
> 
> ok, i checked - this is not a pure topical tree, it's intermingled 
> with other SH changes, so it cannot be pulled into the tracing tree.
> 
> Obviously only such trees can be pulled into the tracing tree that 
> limit their role to tracing and are non-rebasing.
> 
Yes, post-2.6.32 merge window I'll keep the sh/ftrace branch isolated
from the rest of the sh changes, at which point it should be possible to
pull in to -tip directly. I generally do not rebase topic branches.
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