Re: [STABLE REQUEST] ftrace: deprecate the ftrace_enabled disable switch

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 10:43:37AM -0500, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Nov 2026 21:51:42 -0500
> > Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Steve, coming back to this topic (sorry it took me a while - other
> > > work related stuff kept me busy). Are you still willing to accept  [1]
> > >  upstream ? If yes, can you also please clarify why only the first 2
> > > patches and not the third, selftest patch?
> >
> > I was thinking for backporting purposes. The selftest patch is fine, but
> > not something that needs to be backported.
> >
> > -- Steve
> 
> Ok, so just to clear my own confusion: do we want to directly present
> this to stable as a backport fixing a bug, or go through merge to
> mainline first and then only backport? If we do want to take it into
> mainline then I think the selftest patch is beneficial especially
> because Jiri found some case that breaks there that needs furhter
> invistigation [1].

We can not take patches in stable that are not upstream first unless
there is a VERY good reason why that can not happen.

thanks,

greg k-h