From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:23:23 -0500

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> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:20:17AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > We're merging this stuff to solve the chicken and egg
> > problem wherein the lttng tree merge is basically
> > stalled.
> > 
> > If the individual subsystem annotations go in, the hope
> > is that they'll have less to merge and thus it's more likely
> > to actually happen.
> 
> I'm rather concerned as I haven't seen any progress on the lttng core
> lately.  I'd really prefer to have a version in close to mergeable shape
> first, that's actively beeing pushed.  Adding the instrumentation is
> trivial as seen by this small patch, but getting the core right (and who
> knows if that involves changing the way actual instrumentation works, it's
> not like that hasn't changed n million times yet) is essential.

The block layer already merged trace annotations.  I therefore see no
harm in merging the net bits.

If you disagree, either submit a revert of the block layer
annotations, or content yourself in being a hypocrite :-)
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