Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture

From	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture
Date	2016-09-19 21:00 +0200
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Hi Ben,

On 19.09.2016 19:41, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 20:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 18:17 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
>>> So, can you please deactivate CONFIG_FTRACE completely for 32- and
>>> 64bit hppa configs?
>>> Is it sufficient to add "CONFIG_FTRACE=n" to
>>> debian/config/hppa/config ?
>>
>> Done.
> 
> But this changes the module ABI, resulting in FTBFS.  From what you've
> said on this bug, I'm not sure whether the previous version (4.7.2-1)
> was at all usable. 

I was able to boot the 4.7.2-1 kernel on one of my machines where /boot was big enough.
The hppa buildd servers have smaller /boot partitions though  nd the kernel was not useable/installable there.

> If not then I will delete the ABI reference for
> hppa so the change is ignored.

I'd propose to delete the ABI reference.
I'm not aware of any hppa-relevant out-of-tree kernel modules either.

Helge

Thread

Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2016-09-12 18:30 +0200
  Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-09-12 21:40 +0200
    Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-09-19 19:50 +0200
      Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2016-09-19 21:00 +0200
        Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-09-19 21:10 +0200
          Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2016-09-22 21:30 +0200
            Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-09-23 01:50 +0200
              Bug#837588: vmlinux in linux-image packages is unstripped Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-09-23 05:50 +0200
                Bug#837588: vmlinux in linux-image packages is unstripped Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2016-09-27 15:00 +0200
                Bug#837588: vmlinux in linux-image packages is unstripped Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-09-27 21:10 +0200
                Bug#837588: vmlinux in linux-image packages is unstripped Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2016-09-27 23:20 +0200
                Bug#837588: vmlinux in linux-image packages is unstripped Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-09-30 23:30 +0200
                Bug#837588: vmlinux in linux-image packages is unstripped Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2016-10-01 22:30 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for  hppa architecture owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-09-12 21:40 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for  hppa architecture owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-09-23 01:50 +0200

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