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On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:07:24 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:

> > 
> > The prctl(2) manpage will need to be updated.  Please Cc Michael on all
> > such changes.
> >
> 
> you mean -- Michael Kerrisk, mtk AT man7.org, right?

That isn't what ./MAINTAINERS says?

> > 
> > This is starting to add a non-trivial amount of code.  Perhaps we need
> > to introduce a Kconfig variable to control such things as this, to
> > prevent bloating up kernels which aren't require to support c/r?
> > 
> 
> Dunno, Andrew. Actually I agreed that these snippets are mostly
> needed for c/r only, but the initial idea over all changes was
> to add levers into kernel which might be helpful not only
> for c/r but for someone else as well.

In each instance, a case would need to be made for that.  Plus if
people later come along who want access to these things for other
purposes, they can send a patch!

There will always be people who would *prefer* that this material not
be present in their vmlinux.  For those people, this patch is a
regression!