Re: [PATCH] sh: remove stray markers

[Ingo Molnar]

* Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:15:49PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:07:35PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > Also, if there's some current use of these markers then it's OK 
> > > > to not do this change right now but replace them with 
> > > > tracepoints in the v2.6.31 merge window, after both the SH and 
> > > > the tracing infrastructure changes are upstream.
> > > 
> > > There's not user of these. [...]
> > 
> > I'll defer to Paul to decide whether SH needs those markers. If he 
> > added them to ease his own debugging (via whatever external 
> > approach), then that's an OK goal and we can handle this all 
> > politely without destroying functionality, in the next merge window.
> 
> They were primarily added to aid some downstream folks that were 
> just adding these on their own and generally not paying attention 
> to where the markers were being placed on subsequent merges. I 
> don't feel too strongly one way or the other, but as they have 
> proven to be useful for some people, I would rather transition 
> over to tracepoints during the merge window than kill them off 
> prematurely.

fair enough!

	Ingo
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