Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754052AbZCKQez (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:34:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752285AbZCKQeq (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:34:46 -0400 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:45417 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752202AbZCKQeq (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:34:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:34:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: "K.Prasad" cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces In-Reply-To: <20090311121007.GC13835@in.ibm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 650 Lines: 17 On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, K.Prasad wrote: > The hardware breakpoint interfaces haven't been put under any CONFIG_ > till now, but I think we should bring them under a new config, say > CONFIG_HW_BREAKPOINT. It would help create a dependancy for > CONFIG_KSYM_TRACER too. With these patches, ptrace is dependent on hw-breakpoint. You can't disable CONFIG_HW_BREAKPOINT without breaking ptrace. Alan Stern -- 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/