On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:33:45 -0600 dann frazier <dann.fraz...@canonical.com> wrote:
> > This is marked as "Fixes" but is more of a clean up than a true fix. > > Backport if you want, but its not critical. > > Thanks Steven! In case it helps backport consideration, I wanted to > note that this addresses an issue we've seen with users trying to > change current_tracer when they happen to have rasdaemon > installed. rasdaemon uses the trace_pipe interface at runtime, which > therefore blocks changing the current tracer. But of course, unless > you know about rasdaemon internals, it isn't exactly an obvious > failure mode. Ah, then this should probably be backported. When I push to Linus (during the next merge window) and it gets into Linus's tree. Feel free to send sta...@vger.kernel.org the sha1 of this commit, and ask for it to be backported for the above stated reason. -- Steve
