Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756125AbYHBAO5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:14:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752087AbYHBAOu (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:14:50 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:46409 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751974AbYHBAOt (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:14:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:35:53 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , stable@kernel.org, Chris Wright Subject: Re: [PATCH stable] ftrace document crucial update Message-ID: <20080801233553.GA24276@kroah.com> References: <20080731164850.GA10422@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1595 Lines: 40 On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:10:49PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:05:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > > > It has come to my attention that ftrace.txt was pulled into 2.6.26 > > > prematurely. That is Linus pulled it in before it was well tested. A > > > series of updates were made to it shortly afterward, but by then it was > > > too late. The release was out, and ftrace.txt was greatly inadequate. > > > > > > This patch is a sum of all the critical updates to keep ftrace.txt in a > > > stable state. I strongly urge the stable team to get this into 2.6.26.1. > > > Otherwise people may be greatly disappointed while reading ftrace.txt just > > > to realize that it is horribly out of date. > > > > > > Never mind that ftrace itself doesn't exist is 2.6.26. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt > > > > Then why don't I just delete the file from the 2.6.26 tree entirely? > > That would make more sense, right? > > Nope! I'm leading by example here. We should have good documentation > before the code! ;-) Bah, that only confuses people :) I'll just go delete the whole thing, makes more sense. That way you will not send me patches for the Documentation when things change in the upstream version... thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/