Re: What's become with PPC patches?
Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
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| Message-ID | <20061107204816.GA30936@Krystal> |
* Sergei Shtylyov ([email protected]) wrote: > Hello. > > Since we were about to start working on LTTng in arch/powerpc/ tree (at > last), I've looked thru the current 2.6.18 patches, and was surprised in a > bad > way about PPC patches which only looked like a shadow of what they were > several months ago, largely reminding the result of a failed rebase with > only > some added lines and braces serving no particular purpose. Looks like that > disaster (I think it's the right word) happened after 2.6.17-lttng-0.5.108. > Mattieau, could you clarify what happened? The patch has lost a lot of > trace points (assmingly borrowed from my last year's LTT work), so it's > going to be quite a setback for us, and completely unexpected... :-( > Can you point to some examples of the trace points that went away ? I will probably be able to explain where they are now : most likely in architecture independant locations. Mathieu OpenPGP public key: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080/key/compudj.gpg Key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68