Re: [patch 00/11] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces

Alan Stern
2009-03-11T16:34:55Z

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, K.Prasad wrote:

> The hardware breakpoint interfaces haven't been put under any CONFIG_
> till now, but I think we should bring them under a new config, say
> CONFIG_HW_BREAKPOINT. It would help create a dependancy for
> CONFIG_KSYM_TRACER too.

With these patches, ptrace is dependent on hw-breakpoint. You can't
disable CONFIG_HW_BREAKPOINT without breaking ptrace.

Alan Stern