Re: [PATCH -tip] tracing: remove unused code

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:40:04PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:21:37AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks Luis,
> > > 
> > > But before I remove this code, I want to move it to be 
> > > activated by tracing options. The irqsoff tracer (and other 
> > > latency tracers) are pretty useless without it.
> > 
> > sounds good.
> 
> Ok, understood.  I am sorry for the noise introduced by this patch... I should
> have got some more context before submitting it -- I am really not that familiar
> with this code and tried just to remove a compile warning without fully
> understand the whole picture :-)


Don't be sorry, the fix was right.
But nobody can be aware of all background history in a subsystem, unless one read
all tracing related posts but it is very active these time so it can be a little pain for
a newcomer.

 
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