Re: [PATCH -next-20080709] fixup stop_machine use cpu mask vsftrace

[Ingo Molnar]

* Milton Miller <miltonm@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Rusty, Ingo.
> 
> Rusty's patch [PATCH 3/3] stop_machine: use cpu mask rather than magic 
> numbers didn't find kernel/trace/ftrace.c in -next, causing an 
> immediate almost NULL pointer dereference in ftrace_dynamic_init.

Rusty - what's going on here? Please do not change APIs like that, which 
cause code to crash. Either do a compatible API change, or change it 
over in a way that causes clear build failures, not crashes.

	Ingo
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