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Message-ID: <20120425113414.GA3378@m.brq.redhat.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:34:15 +0200 From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@...il.com, mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ftrace: Remove unused code ftrace related code On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 07:21:29AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 10:23 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote: > > Removing unused functions: > > ftrace_rec_iter_record > > ftrace_rec_iter_next > > ftrace_rec_iter_start > > ftrace_location > > No, no, no!! > > These are used in the core infrastructure of removing stop machine from > ftrace. > > Correct, no one currently uses them, but that's because they were needed > for the arch dependent code. I have patches for both PPC and x86 to > remove stop machine, and I want the PPC changes to go through the PPC > tree. > > I pushed the changes for the core infrastructure so that we don't have > dependencies between different archs. > > Please read: commit c88fd8634ea68e74c7d19fd2621b4078fd22864c > > If you remove these you would break: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/620 > > Big NACK! I see, thought they were just leftover not seeing any user.. big sorry then ;-) jirka > > -- Steve > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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