From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754685AbYICSLS (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:11:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752639AbYICSLD (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:11:03 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:39263 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752392AbYICSLB (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:11:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Petr Tesarik X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] utrace core In-Reply-To: Petr Tesarik's message of Wednesday, 3 September 2008 14:58:27 +0200 <1220446707.6041.27.camel@elijah.suse.cz> References: <20080826220102.89635154233@magilla.localdomain> <20080826220157.397C7154233@magilla.localdomain> <1220446707.6041.27.camel@elijah.suse.cz> X-Zippy-Says: I want to dress you up as TALLULAH BANKHEAD and cover you with VASELINE and WHEAT THINS.. Message-Id: <20080903180854.61207154228@magilla.localdomain> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Why does it depend on MODULES? Because otherwise it's not adding anything new anyone can use. > Does this mean that when ptrace is switched to using the utrace engines, > non-modular kernels will have to lack ptrace(2)? No. If that were done, then it would be: depends on MODULE || PTRACE or suchlike. > Is there anything in the code that actually breaks without > CONFIG_MODULES? No. Thanks, Roland