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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 02:50:01PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> What about adding a CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTRACE2, which is set by the archs
> which are converted. For those which are not you add a fallback
> implementation:

Bah.  Folks, we're talking about adding a single new argument to a
single function implemented by our 24 architectures.  This is a trivial
almost scriptable conversion.