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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] utrace core
From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 15:01 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: 
> [...]
> +menuconfig UTRACE
> +	bool "Infrastructure for tracing and debugging user processes"
> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> +	depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
> +	depends on MODULES

Why does it depend on MODULES? Does this mean that when ptrace is
switched to using the utrace engines, non-modular kernels will have to
lack ptrace(2)?

Is there anything in the code that actually breaks without
CONFIG_MODULES?

Regards,
Petr Tesarik