Re: [git pull] ftrace for v2.6.27

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Bruce Duncan <bwduncan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 August 2008 18:15:14 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Seems that the issue is with the "ftraced" daemon. The patch you
> > reverted was just a fix in the ftrace startup test. If something fails
> > in the start up test, that something is disabled.  There was a bug in
> > the start up test that caused the dynamic ftrace to fail, and thus
> > disabling dynamic ftrace. The patch you reverted, was the fix to that
> > bug, so you indirectly disabled dynamic ftrace with that revert.
> >
> > I've been developing a way to get rid of the "ftraced" daemon. Here's a
> > big patch to do so against latest git (as of today). Can you go back to
> > the original git, apply this patch and see if you can resume again.
> 
> I've been following that thread with great interest! Glad to see it's 
> taking shape.
> 
> The patch works beautifully. Thanks very much!

it's now integrated into tip/master (with a few other ftrace goodies), 
if you want to test the end result check out tip/master via:

  http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

	Ingo