On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 13:57 +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > Is there any reason why the recordmcount.pl would ever be used now that the > C implementation exists? > > I notice that arch/arm/Kconfig has: > > config ARM > ... > select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT > > so deprecating ARM support from recordmcount.pl seems unlikely to hurt > anyone. > > The C implementation seems to have worked fine when I was testing dynamic > ftrace with Thumb-2 recently. It's there only as a backup. But you're right. I may as well start removing the recordmcount.pl support from those that have the HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT set, and then all users are gone (which may now be the case) either keep it around as a backup for testing against recordmcount.c, or remove it completely. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
