From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] utrace core
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:46:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080903184613.GD16175@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080903180854.61207154228@magilla.localdomain>
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:08:54AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Why does it depend on MODULES?
>
> Because otherwise it's not adding anything new anyone can use.
It doesn't add anything new to use either way
> > 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.
In which case you should just remove this bogus (non-)dependency.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-03 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-26 22:01 [PATCH 0/2] utrace Roland McGrath
2008-08-26 22:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] utrace core Roland McGrath
2008-08-26 22:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-27 21:32 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-27 21:46 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-27 22:00 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-30 13:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-03 12:11 ` Roland McGrath
2008-09-03 17:01 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-27 20:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-03 12:11 ` Roland McGrath
2008-09-03 18:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-30 15:05 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-03 12:58 ` Petr Tesarik
2008-09-03 18:08 ` Roland McGrath
2008-09-03 18:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-09-04 9:03 ` Petr Tesarik
2008-08-26 22:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] utrace: ptrace cooperation Roland McGrath
2008-08-30 13:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-03 12:10 ` Roland McGrath
2008-09-03 18:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-26 22:34 ` [PATCH 0/2] utrace Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-26 22:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-27 0:17 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-08-27 13:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-27 16:40 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2008-08-30 13:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-03 12:09 ` Roland McGrath
2008-09-03 18:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-27 15:34 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-29 19:04 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-08-30 13:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-27 18:50 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-27 2:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-06 20:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
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