On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:25:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:23:10AM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > It would also be nice to balance this out with the utrace merge, as both
> > are going to cause quite a lot of pain on the architecture side.
>
> I don't think a utrace merge as in one big merge is going to happen ever.
> It's just a too big patch doing too many things at once. And the flag day
> for switching all architectures over is another blocker.
I agree with Christoph - the fact that *all* architectures have to be
either ptrace or utrace make it very very painful.
What would be good is if some effort could be made by the utrace-
interested parties to make the transition to utrace much less painful.
For instance, I quite like the getregs/setregs abstractions, and it
looks like these *could* be self-contained in a single patch. It
would be nice if we could move architectures over to this one a time.
Once that's in, that's one chunk of utrace merged.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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