From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757593Ab2DISL6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:11:58 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:38899 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757556Ab2DISL4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:11:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:11:52 -0700 From: Tejun Heo To: Stephen Boyd Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Frederic Weisbecker , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] trace: Remove unused workqueue tracer Message-ID: <20120409181152.GC7522@google.com> References: <1333994425-30379-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1333994425-30379-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 11:00:25AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: > This tracer was temporarily removed in 6416669 (workqueue: > temporarily remove workqueue tracing, 2010-06-29) but never > reinstated after concurrency managed workqueues were completed. > For almost two years it hasn't been compilable so it seems nobody > is using it. Delete it. > > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker > Cc: Tejun Heo > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Yeah, I feel somewhat guilty about this. The plan was to make it work again once cmwq is stable but I never got around to it. That said, if nobody is using it, shedding code is always nice. If nobody objects, I'll push this patch through wq/for-3.5. We can revive it later if necessary. Thank you. -- tejun