From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:12:00 +0000 From: Russell King Subject: Re: [PATCH consolidate sys_ptrace Message-ID: <20051101181200.GB18205@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20051101050900.GA25793@lst.de> <20051101051221.GA26017@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051101051221.GA26017@lst.de> Sender: Russell King To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:12:21AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:09:00AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > [Let's try again now that sys_ptrace returns long everywhere mainline..] > > > > 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. 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. > > Umm, it might be a good idea to actually send the current patch instead > of the old one. I really should write this text from scratch instead > of copying it :) > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Russell King Thanks Christoph. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core