On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Maybe Steve could do the following trick: create a Linus -git based > > branch that uses the new APIs but marks ppc's ftrace as "depends 0" in > > the powerpc Kconfig. (the new ftrace.c wont build) > > There's only two generic commits that need to be added for the PowerPC > code to work. > > ftrace: pass module struct to arch dynamic ftrace functions > ftrace: allow NULL pointers in mcount_loc > > I've already ported them to mainline to test PowerPC there. > Paul could use these two versions and keep ftrace in a separate branch in > his tree. This way all the PowerPC code will be there, and actually can be > tested. They may still hit the same bugs that we have fixed in tip, but > those should all be minor, since any major bug is already in mainline or > on its way.
I just pushed all the PowerPC patches on top of this port it works. I still need to rework the patches for Paul. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
