linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/8] ptrace: arch

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Message-ID: <20080321140708.GA30540@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:07:08 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>, tony.luck@...el.com,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] ptrace: arch_ptrace -ENOSYS return

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 02:50:01PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> What about adding a CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTRACE2, which is set by the archs
> which are converted. For those which are not you add a fallback
> implementation:

Bah.  Folks, we're talking about adding a single new argument to a
single function implemented by our 24 architectures.  This is a trivial
almost scriptable conversion.

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