linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] Remove JPROBE

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Message-ID: <20070626055236.GA6841@lst.de>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:52:36 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com, ananth@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Remove JPROBE_ENTRY()

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:48:51AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> AFAICT now that jprobe.entry is a void *, JPROBE_ENTRY doesn't do
> anything useful - so remove it ..
> 
> I've left a do-nothing version so that out-of-tree jprobes code will still
> compile without modifications.

Please kill the definition.  We don't want to keep unused crap around
just to let code compile.  And I have some plans for even deeper change
in this area, so they'll have to change anyway.

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