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From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Wu Zhangjin wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 15:21 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > MIPS and some other architectures need this argument to handle
> > > big/little endian respectively.
> > 
> > Hmm, the patch adds the endian argument to the command line, but does
> > nothing else with it. Is there something missing from the patch or is
> > it just a left over from earlier iterations ?
> > 
> 
> It is used in: 
> 
> [PATCH v8 07/16] tracing: add dynamic function tracer support for MIPS
> 
> Steven told me to split it out ;)

Fair enough. Missed that.

Thanks,

	tglx