Re: [PATCH] compat_sys_ptrace conversions for parisc

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:49:35PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> I agree that my comment suggests that splitting the patch into two parts 
> could make sense to track the changes easier, but if you look into the 
> original code you'll see, that I would need to duplicate all of the 
> arch_ptrace code and then make the copied part 64bit-ready. Then the 
> second patch would delete all of this again and replacing it with the 
> generic function calls.
> IMHO that's a lot of coding and changes without any need. You'll first 
> need to understand coding in my first patch which is then deleted 
> afterwards with the second patch again. And if you look at the final 
> ptrace.c file after applying my patch which I posted here, you'll see 
> that arch_ptrace is now really small and simple to understand.
> 
> That said, I'm not very motivated to split my patch.

Oh, parisc actually uses sys_ptrace as the 32bit entry point.  Yes, I
see your point and take back the suggestion.