Re: [GIT PULL] tracing/urgent for v2.6.31

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I think defaulting CONFIG_FTRACE to 'y' is dubious too, but at least 
> that's not a new feature as much as a new config option making other 
> config options visible. But again, I do think it should likely default to 
> off, even so.

Well it was:

	default y if DEBUG_KERNEL

Where the rational was that if you want to debug the kernel, you might 
want to see some tracing features that are available to you.

-- Steve

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