Re: Fwd: Re: [2.6.24 patch] restore ARMv6 OProfile support

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 13:53:40 EST




On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> Well, it goes along the lines of the patch I suggested as a reply to
> Adrian, with these differences :
>
> - I still source the kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation file.
> - I put back the missing OPROFILE options directly in arch/arm/Kconfig
>
> Then end result is the same as your patch, but without the code
> duplication.

No it's not.

Now the config variables may all be there, but the UI for the *menu*
system is broken (ie all the ARM profiling config options are now outside
the profiling menu).

Is that menu really needed? I dunno. But since it exists, it should be
correct.

Linus
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