Re: [2.6 patch] blackfin: remove dump_thread()

["Bryan Wu" <cooloney.lkml@gmail.com>]

On Nov 7, 2007 11:28 AM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:07:06AM +0800, Bryan Wu wrote:
> > On 11/6/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > This patch removes the unused dump_thread().
> > >
> >
> > Why only remove it from Blackfin? any more reason?
>
> The only user is the a.out support.
>
> It was therefore removed prior to the blackfin merge from all
> architectures not supporting a.out.
>

OK, make sense. Currently, Blackfin doesn't suppport a.out.

Acked-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>



> > I found this in latest 2.6.24-rc2:
> >
> > --
> > Cscope tag: dump_thread
> >    #   line  filename / context / line
> >    1    324  arch/alpha/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
> >              dump_thread(struct pt_regs * pt, struct user * dump)
> >    2    373  arch/arm/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
> >              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
> >    3    244  arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
> >              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, struct user *dump)
> >    4    321  arch/m68k/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
> >              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
> >    5    572  arch/sparc/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
> >              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
> >    6    731  arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
> >              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
> >    7    306  arch/um/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
> >              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, struct user *u)
> >    8    519  arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c <<dump_thread>>
> >              void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
> > --
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Bryan
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
> --
>
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>
>

Thanks a lot.
-Bryan Wu