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2008/10/20 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
> That seems like a good plan.  Should we mark dynamic ftrace as X86 only
> in Kconfig for .28 to prevent people from inadvertently setting it?

Hi Josh.

There are other arch that support ftrace as well like sh or sparc64
(I'm currently working on
an implementation for mips).
So the choice would be better between waiting for a fix or disable
dynamic ftrace
on Kconfig only for PowerPC.