From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755590AbYGaSmc (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:42:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752540AbYGaSmY (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:42:24 -0400 Received: from sous-sol.org ([216.99.217.87]:54149 "EHLO sequoia.sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752308AbYGaSmX (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:42:23 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3580 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:42:22 EDT Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:53:44 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , stable@kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, Chris Wright Subject: Re: [PATCH stable] ftrace document crucial update Message-ID: <20080731165335.GA14310@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Steven Rostedt (rostedt@goodmis.org) wrote: > > It has come to my attention that ftrace.txt was pulled into 2.6.26 > prematurely. That is Linus pulled it in before it was well tested. A > series of updates were made to it shortly afterward, but by then it was > too late. The release was out, and ftrace.txt was greatly inadequate. > > This patch is a sum of all the critical updates to keep ftrace.txt in a > stable state. I strongly urge the stable team to get this into 2.6.26.1. > Otherwise people may be greatly disappointed while reading ftrace.txt just > to realize that it is horribly out of date. > > Never mind that ftrace itself doesn't exist is 2.6.26. .txt only patch is quite low-risk, but given the above, is it really that critical? thanks, -chris