Re: What's become with PPC patches?

Hello.

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

>>   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.

    Look at arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c in your patchset, for example...

> Mathieu

WBR, Sergei