Re: [PATCH 08/10] MAINTAINERS - Add FTRACE git

Joe Perches
2009-01-14T06:20:10Z

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:59 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:28:16PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> > ---
> > MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index ceeeb8c..6e051c3 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -2189,6 +2189,7 @@ F: fs/freevxfs/
> > FTRACE
> > P: Steven Rostedt
> > M: rostedt@goodmis.org
> > +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git
> > S: Maintained
> > F: Documentation/ftrace.txt
> > F: arch/*/*/*/ftrace.h
>
> This sort of thing only makes sense if you include the topic branch for
> the tree in question. While it is true that ftrace development happens in
> this tree, people looking at ftrace may not want to sort through the
> hundreds of unrelated topic branches in the process. I say this as
> someone that does not want to sort through hundreds of unrelated topic
> branches in search of ftrace code ;-)

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=heads

Is the correct topic branch for ftrace auto-ftrace-next?

maybe:

T: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git auto-ftrace-next

No idea what's right here. I had some private emails
with Steven Rostedt about a git tree. He suggested
to use tip.

Steven? Suggestions?