Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 23:00:33 +0530
From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, 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
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:44:46PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 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
>
I will rename the thread_<set/get>_debugreg() functions to ptrace_* and
move the related functions to arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c

Thanks,
K.Prasad
 
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