From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: arch_ptrace cleanup
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:14:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803271612360.14670@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080327230623.969FF26FA1C@magilla.localdomain>
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> This intends to remove the last bit of entanglement with core ptrace
> implementation details in arch code's arch_ptrace and arch_compat_ptrace.
So I think this has a nicer calling convention, but you never answered the
question about what the *point* of this all is.
This is _still_ uglier than what we already have, which is to just have
the code call "[compat_]ptrace_request()" for any cases they don't
recognize.
I wanted to know if there was some actual technical point to it, and never
got a reply to that.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-27 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-27 23:06 Roland McGrath
2008-03-27 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-03-28 2:31 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-28 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
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