linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/1] Delete legacy power trace API

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Message-ID: <1357510436.10284.69.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:13:56 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/1] Delete legacy power trace API

On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 23:10 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, January 04, 2013 08:49:03 PM Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > The actual deletion is mind-numbingly simple; and if you go by the
> > comments in the code, it is well overdue.  However, in discussions
> > with Frederic, he suggested to me that those comments might have
> > been overly optimistic, and that there may still be people out
> > there who are still unknowingly using this dead API.
> > 
> > So, that is the crux of the RFC component -- to check whether the
> > comments saying "delete by v3.1" can be taken at face value, or
> > whether they were overly optimistic, and hence this stuff is still
> > actively used even though it is overdue for deletion.
> 
> Do you want me or the tracing maintainers to handle this?
> 

You can take it. If you want you can add:

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

-- Steve


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