linux-kernel - Re: utrace merge

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2007 11:41:32 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	ego@...ibm.com, paulmck@...ibm.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vatsa@...ibm.com,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	dino@...ibm.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: utrace merge

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 11:36:24 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:06:44PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > urgh, I screwed up, sorry.
> > > 
> > > utrace-prep-2 reverts a bit of the underlying tree so that the utrace 
> > > patches (which are against mainline) don't throw a tremendous reject 
> > > which has to be fixed each time I pull Roland's tree.  I'm supposed to 
> > > reapply that change after the utrace patches but forgot.
> > 
> > btw., how about pushing utrace to v2.6.22, is anything big holding that 
> > up? (other than Roland's modesty, which we should gently but firmly 
> > ignore in this case =B-)
> 
> a) lots of architecture support
> b) lots of overengineered and obsfucated code
> c) missing public information
> 
> I've also not gotten any feedback to my ages old review and the issues
> don't seem to be addressed either.
> 

And rmk had showstopper problems with ARM support which I never
saw resolved.
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