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

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Message-ID: <20130106001710.GD1841@windriver.com>
Date:	Sat, 5 Jan 2013 19:17:10 -0500
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/1] Delete legacy power trace API

[Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/1] Delete legacy power trace API] On 05/01/2013 (Sat 23:10) 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?

I have no particular preference as to what path it takes in
getting merged to mainline - just so long as we don't hear anyone
requesting it to _not_ be removed in the next few days.

Paul.
--


> 
> Rafael
> 
> 
> > ---
> > 
> > Paul Gortmaker (1):
> >   tracing: remove deprecated power trace API
> > 
> >  Documentation/trace/events-power.txt | 27 +----------
> >  arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm34xx.c         |  2 -
> >  arch/x86/kernel/process.c            |  6 ---
> >  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c            |  1 -
> >  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c            |  2 -
> >  include/trace/events/power.h         | 92 ------------------------------------
> >  kernel/trace/Kconfig                 | 15 ------
> >  kernel/trace/power-traces.c          |  3 --
> >  8 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 147 deletions(-)
> > 
> > 
> -- 
> I speak only for myself.
> Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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