Re: [PATCH] Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace

Steven Rostedt
2015-04-13T22:03:53Z

On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:55:08 -0700
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> > Interesting. But I can't accept this until I can test it. I don't have
>
> AFAIK that's a unique policy. I don't think any other maintainer operates
> this way.

Um, really? Other maintainers don't test patches that they maintain?
This isn't like hardware that I don't have. This could certainly affect
people if it breaks, and I will be responsible to fix it. I'm not going
to do that until I have a setup where I can test things that break.

>
> > I wonder who's responsible for
> > https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/
> >
> > If they can add a i386/x86_64 build for gcc5 I'll be happy to download
> > it and test this patch.
>
> That doesn't make any sense.
>

What, adding gcc5 to the crosstools suite? Why not?

-- Steve