Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix the outmost stupidity of tracing_off()

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 01:12 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > That's still not an excuse for utter stupidity, really. Just check the
> > commit date vs. your discovery time.
> > 
> > I told you often enough to be more careful, but that one is really
> > beyond comprehension.
> 
> I'm really thinking that this was due to a bad push. As I believe I had
> stale code (made this fix locally, but pushed the broken branch) and all
> my changes were on top of it. When updating to the latest tip, I had
> code I didn't want to merge, or conflicts happened, that I ended up
> cherry-picking changes. Which breaks from my normal workflow, which is
> to make sure my old changes fast forward to tip before doing a rebase of
> my new code.
> 
> I have several branches that I work on and when they are ready, I rebase
> them on top of tip, run a bunch of tests, and then push them out.
> 
> I'm a heavy user of tracing_off() too, and since the development of my
> work is usually on older branches, I would not have noticed the bug. As
> after I get things working I usually rebase on top of tip before doing
> my final tests and asking for the pull request.

Bla, bla, bla.....

 commit 499e547057f5bba5cd6f87ebe59b05d0c59da905
 Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
 Date:   Wed Feb 22 15:50:28 2012 -0500

Did you actually read what I wrote above?

> > That's still not an excuse for utter stupidity, really. Just check the
> > commit date vs. your discovery time.

Emphasis on discovery time.

Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses

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