Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753179AbYKSJ2G (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:28:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752179AbYKSJ1y (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:27:54 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:54712 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752170AbYKSJ1x (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:27:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:27:23 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Paul Mackerras , LKML , Andrew Morton , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Porting dynmaic ftrace to PowerPC Message-ID: <20081119092723.GC22309@elte.hu> References: <20081116212428.938752312@goodmis.org> <18720.42209.880409.297291@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <18723.31762.522696.647294@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00,DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE RBL: Envelope sender in blackholes.securitysage.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1502 Lines: 36 * Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > Steven Rostedt writes: > > > > > Can I add your Acked-by: to all these patches that I submitted? I'm going > > > to recommit them with a consistent subject (all lower case ppc), but I'm > > > not going to change the patches themselves. > > > > > > Would you two be fine with that? Or at least one of you? > > > > My preference would be for the patches to go through the powerpc tree > > unless there is a good reason for them to go via another tree. > > I have no problem with that. The only thing is that we have a lot of > pending work still in the linux-tip tree, which you may need to pull > in to get these patches working. Well, there's two or three commits > in the generic code that I know the PPC code is dependent on. > > I could give you a list of commits in tip that need to go mainline > first before we can pull in the PPC changes. Then you could wait > till those changes make it into 29 and then you could push the PPC > modifications in from your tree. note that this inserts a lot of (unnecessary) serialization and a window of non-testing - by all likelyhood this will delay ppc ftrace to v2.6.30 or later kernels. Ingo -- 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/