Re: [RFC/PATCH] trace: Remove unused workqueue tracer

Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-09T18:20:39Z

2012/4/9 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 11:00:25AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> This tracer was temporarily removed in 6416669 (workqueue:
>> temporarily remove workqueue tracing, 2010-06-29) but never
>> reinstated after concurrency managed workqueues were completed.
>> For almost two years it hasn't been compilable so it seems nobody
>> is using it. Delete it.
>>
>> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
>
> Yeah, I feel somewhat guilty about this.  The plan was to make it work
> again once cmwq is stable but I never got around to it.  That said, if
> nobody is using it, shedding code is always nice.  If nobody objects,
> I'll push this patch through wq/for-3.5.  We can revive it later if
> necessary.

No problem for me.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>