Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix TRACING_SUPPORT dependency

[Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:57:43PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:04:28PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > commit 40ada30f9621fbd831ac2437b9a2a399aad34b00 ("tracing: clean 
> > > > up menu"), despite the "clean up" in its purpose, introduced 
> > > > behavioural change for Kconfig symbols: we no longer able to 
> > > > select tracing support on PPC32 (because IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT isn't 
> > > > yet implemented).
> > > 
> > > Could you please solve this by implementing proper 
> > > irqflag-tracing support? It's been available upstream for almost 
> > > three years. It's needed for lockdep support as well, etc.
> > 
> > Breaking things via clean up patches is an interesting method of 
> > encouraging something to implement. ;-)
> >
> > Surely I'll look into implementing irqflags tracing, but 
> > considering that no one ever needed this for almost three years, 
> > [...]
> 
> Weird, there's no lockdep support?

*ashamed*: apparently no such support currently exist for PPC32. ;-)

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