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Message-ID: <20110517162726.GT20624@htj.dyndns.org> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 18:27:26 +0200 From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: oleg@...hat.com, jan.kratochvil@...hat.com, vda.linux@...glemail.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, indan@....nu, bdonlan@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] signal: remove three noop tracehooks Hello, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:22:24PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:17:20PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Remove the following three noop tracehooks in signals.c. > > > > * tracehook_force_sigpending() > > * tracehook_get_signal() > > * tracehook_finish_jctl() > > > > The code area is about to be updated and these hooks don't do anything > > other than obfuscating the logic. > > Btw, I think we should kill that stupid <linux/tracehook.h> layer > entirely. It consists of a few relatively useful function which should > just be renamed to ptrace_* and moved to ptrace.c, and a lot of entirely > pointless wrappers which generally have only a single user, and often > tons of arguments that aren't actually used. Yeap, agreed. It's on the todo list. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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