[Cbe-oss-dev] sputrace conversion patch concerns

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.