linux-kernel - Re: remove asm-generic/ptrace.h

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Message-ID: <20190502140122.GC7323@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 May 2019 16:01:22 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove asm-generic/ptrace.h

On 05/01, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> asm-generic/ptrace.h is a little weird in that it doesn't actually
> implement any functionality, but it provided multiple layers of macros
> that just implement trivial inline functions.  We implement those
> directly in the few architectures and be off with a much simpler
> design.

Oh, thanks, I was always confused by these macros ;)

Oleg.