Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:35:53 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH stable] ftrace document crucial update |
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:10:49PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > 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 to realize that it is horribly out of date.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! ;-)
Bah, that only confuses people :)
I'll just go delete the whole thing, makes more sense. That way you will not send me patches for the Documentation when things change in the upstream version...
thanks,
greg k-h
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