Re: [PATCH consolidate sys_ptrace

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:12:21AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:09:00AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > [Let's try again now that sys_ptrace returns long everywhere mainline..]
> > 
> > The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch
> > statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most
> > architectures.  This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the
> > arch-specific code as arch_ptrace.
> > 
> > Some architectures have a too different ptrace so we have to exclude
> > them.  They continue to keep their implementations.  For sh64 I had to
> > add a sh64_ptrace wrapper because it does some initialization on the
> > first call.  For um I removed an ifdefed SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL block,
> > but SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL isn't defined anywhere in the tree.
> 
> Umm, it might be a good idea to actually send the current patch instead
> of the old one.  I really should write this text from scratch instead
> of copying it :)
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Thanks Christoph.

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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