[Cbe-oss-dev] sputrace conversion patch concerns

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:08:11AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 07:56:15PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Hi folks !
> > 
> > I'm a bit concerned by the sputrace conversion patch
> > 
> > (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/28641/)
> > 
> > I'm normally all about removing code and using more generic
> > infrastructure but ... this is a user visible API exposed via
> > /proc that would be going away.
> > 
> > (Oh and I think nobody tested the patch yet :-)
> > 
> > Is anybody in this list other than Jeremy actually uses sputrace or know
> > of tools that may rely on its current interface ?
> > 
> > For now, I'm keeping it on the back burner, at least until Jeremy
> > tests and gives his ack.
> 
> Jeremy, can you help out on this?  It's one of the last two markers
> users and we really want to get rid of that infrastructure.

Folks, what's up with this patch now?  I still haven't heard any good
feedback and it still doesn't seem to be in the for-2.6.32 queue.