Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754571AbYJPBpm (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:45:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753465AbYJPBpe (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:45:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44993 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753408AbYJPBpd (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:45:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Stern , akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, jason.wessel@windriver.com, avi@qumranet.com, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 8/9] Modify Ptrace to use wrapper routines to access breakpoint registers In-Reply-To: K.Prasad's message of Thursday, 9 October 2008 00:56:37 +0530 <20081008192637.GH4989@in.ibm.com> References: <20081008192044.GA4510@in.ibm.com> <20081008192637.GH4989@in.ibm.com> X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus X-Zippy-Says: Yow! Am I JOGGING yet?? Message-Id: <20081016014446.374641544CB@magilla.localdomain> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 566 Lines: 14 Just make the new functions in hw_breakpoint code use the same old ptrace_* names. Those are the proper names for this. It really is just compatibility for the old ptrace interface, not any other reason for "thread" debugregs. Then this patch need do nothing but remove the static ptrace.c functions. Thanks, Roland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/