Re: [RFC/PATCH] trace: Remove unused workqueue tracer

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Apr 09 2012 - 14:11:53 EST


On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 11:00:25AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> This tracer was temporarily removed in 6416669 (workqueue:
> temporarily remove workqueue tracing, 2010-06-29) but never
> reinstated after concurrency managed workqueues were completed.
> For almost two years it hasn't been compilable so it seems nobody
> is using it. Delete it.
>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah, I feel somewhat guilty about this. The plan was to make it work
again once cmwq is stable but I never got around to it. That said, if
nobody is using it, shedding code is always nice. If nobody objects,
I'll push this patch through wq/for-3.5. We can revive it later if
necessary.

Thank you.

--
tejun
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