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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:15:29 +0100
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] consolidate sys_ptrace
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:00:57AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch
> statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most
> architectures.  This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the
> arch-specific code as arch_ptrace.
> 
> Some architectures have a too different ptrace so we have to exclude
> them: alpha, ia64, m32r, parisc, sparc, sparc64.  They continue to
> keep their implementations.  For sh64 I had to add a sh64_ptrace wrapper
> because it does some initialization on the first call.  For um I removed
> an ifdefed SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL block, but SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL
> isn't defined anywhere in the tree.
> 
> Only tested on ppc32 so far.

MIPS bits looking good.

  Ralf