Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1

Andrew Morton
2007-03-02T11:16:13Z

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:10:30 +0000 Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:08:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:04:20 +0000 Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:00:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Changes since 2.6.20-mm2:
> > > >
> > > > origin.patch
> > > > git-acpi.patch
> > > > git-alsa.patch
> > > > git-avr32.patch
> > >
> > > I guess you're not pulling the ARM master branch in addition to the devel
> > > branch? The master branch contains fixes for -rc kernels whereas devel
> > > contains stuff for post-rc kernels.
> >
> > Nope, I'm pulling git+ssh://master.kernel.org/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm.git#devel
> >
> > But arm is busted in rc2-mm1 due to missing utrace bits.
>
> What's utrace and why is it mandatory?

It's a complete rewrite of the ptrace code. Quite heroic, really.

Lots of documentation at http://people.redhat.com/roland/utrace/