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

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Message-ID: <6941120.WfD5vZUxk3@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:28:03 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
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 Sunday, January 06, 2013 05:13:56 PM Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 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>

Cool, that helps. :-)

I'll take it.

Thanks,
Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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