Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix TRACING_SUPPORT dependency

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 16:23:03 EST


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:57:43PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:04:28PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > * Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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