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On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:47:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> These patches make a mess of utrace-core.patch.  Do we really want to do that?

Yes.  All these patches from Oleg are preparations for actually doing
a utrace merge in a sane way.  I don't really think utrace should be
in -mm at this point where active ptrace work is going on.