From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <50D49284.6070504@siemens.com> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:47:00 +0100 From: Wolfgang Mauerer MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1356096375-29859-1-git-send-email-wolfgang.mauerer@siemens.com> <50D48EE0.5050407@xenomai.org> In-Reply-To: <50D48EE0.5050407@xenomai.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [RFC PATCH 0/10] Support ftrace on ipipe kernels List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Philippe Gerum Cc: "Kiszka, Jan" , "xenomai@xenomai.org" On 21/12/12 17:31, Philippe Gerum wrote: > On 12/21/2012 02:26 PM, Wolfgang Mauerer wrote: >> Hi Gilles, Jan, >> >> here's a proposal to make ipipe compatible with ftrace that >> does not require global modifications to the preemption system, >> but makes do with local changes. The approach should be easy >> to maintain in the long run: >> > > In the long run, we won't have any non-linux stacks to deal with. > Xenomai 3.x will be moving kernel-based threads over regular linux > kthreads soon, the conversion has begun today in my local tree actually. > I guess that nobody is going to be saddened to see this non-sense go > away (yes, I'm the original author of this non-sense, it's painful enough). > > So basically, this patches series will be required for running the 2.6.x > series only. For this reason, on a general note, I'd like to see all > these extra bits moving to the legacy section in a way or another > (CONFIG_IPIPE_LEGACY). sure, that's easy enough to do. Thanks, Wolfgang