linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Patch 8/9] Modify Ptrace to use wrapper routines to access breakpoint registers

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Message-ID: <20081204173033.GA7715@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 4 Dec 2008 23:00:33 +0530
From:	"K.Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	jason.wessel@...driver.com, avi@...ranet.com,
	richardj_moore@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 8/9] Modify Ptrace to use wrapper routines to
	access breakpoint registers

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:44:46PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Just make the new functions in hw_breakpoint code use the same old ptrace_*
> names.  Those are the proper names for this.  It really is just compatibility
> for the old ptrace interface, not any other reason for "thread" debugregs.
> Then this patch need do nothing but remove the static ptrace.c functions.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Roland
>
I will rename the thread_<set/get>_debugreg() functions to ptrace_* and
move the related functions to arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c

Thanks,
K.Prasad
 
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