Re: [PATCH stable] ftrace document crucial update

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jul 31 2008 - 15:41:47 EST


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:05:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> It has come to my attention that ftrace.txt was pulled into 2.6.26
> prematurely. That is Linus pulled it in before it was well tested. A
> series of updates were made to it shortly afterward, but by then it was
> too late. The release was out, and ftrace.txt was greatly inadequate.
>
> This patch is a sum of all the critical updates to keep ftrace.txt in a
> stable state. I strongly urge the stable team to get this into 2.6.26.1.
> Otherwise people may be greatly disappointed while reading ftrace.txt just
> to realize that it is horribly out of date.
>
> Never mind that ftrace itself doesn't exist is 2.6.26.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Then why don't I just delete the file from the 2.6.26 tree entirely?
That would make more sense, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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