linux-kernel - Re: remove asm-generic/ptrace.h v3

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1906240922420.32342@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:23:02 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
cc:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, 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 v3

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> I'm not sure which tree is the right place, but may this can go through
> the asm-generic tree since it removes an asm-generic header?

Makes sense.

Thanks,

	tglx