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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Bryan Wu <cooloney.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: bryan.wu@analog.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] blackfin: remove dump_thread()
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 04:28:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107032831.GW26163@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <386072610711061907q7809db9ct51d00fe2d6ec6c6b@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:07:06AM +0800, Bryan Wu wrote:
> On 11/6/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > This patch removes the unused dump_thread().
> >
> 
> Why only remove it from Blackfin? any more reason?

The only user is the a.out support.

It was therefore removed prior to the blackfin merge from all 
architectures not supporting a.out.

> I found this in latest 2.6.24-rc2:
> 
> --
> Cscope tag: dump_thread
>    #   line  filename / context / line
>    1    324  arch/alpha/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
>              dump_thread(struct pt_regs * pt, struct user * dump)
>    2    373  arch/arm/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
>              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
>    3    244  arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
>              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, struct user *dump)
>    4    321  arch/m68k/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
>              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
>    5    572  arch/sparc/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
>              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
>    6    731  arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
>              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
>    7    306  arch/um/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
>              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, struct user *u)
>    8    519  arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c <<dump_thread>>
>              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
> --
> 
> Regards,
> -Bryan

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-05 17:07 [2.6 patch] blackfin: remove dump_thread() Adrian Bunk
2007-11-07  3:07 ` Bryan Wu
2007-11-07  3:28   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-11-07  3:39     ` Bryan Wu
2007-11-07  3:41       ` Mike Frysinger

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