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SubjectRe: [PATCH stable] ftrace document crucial update

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:05:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > It has come to my attention that ftrace.txt was pulled into 2.6.26
> > prematurely. That is Linus pulled it in before it was well tested. A
> > series of updates were made to it shortly afterward, but by then it was
> > too late. The release was out, and ftrace.txt was greatly inadequate.
> >
> > This patch is a sum of all the critical updates to keep ftrace.txt in a
> > stable state. I strongly urge the stable team to get this into 2.6.26.1.
> > Otherwise people may be greatly disappointed while reading ftrace.txt just
> > to realize that it is horribly out of date.
> >
> > Never mind that ftrace itself doesn't exist is 2.6.26.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
>
> Then why don't I just delete the file from the 2.6.26 tree entirely?
> That would make more sense, right?

Nope! I'm leading by example here. We should have good documentation
before the code! ;-)

-- Steve



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