Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:22:24 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, vda.linux@googlemail.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org, indan@nul.nu, bdonlan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] signal: remove three noop tracehooks
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:17:20PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Remove the following three noop tracehooks in signals.c.
> 
> * tracehook_force_sigpending()
> * tracehook_get_signal()
> * tracehook_finish_jctl()
> 
> The code area is about to be updated and these hooks don't do anything
> other than obfuscating the logic.

Btw, I think we should kill that stupid <linux/tracehook.h> layer
entirely.  It consists of a few relatively useful function which should
just be renamed to ptrace_* and moved to ptrace.c, and a lot of entirely
pointless wrappers which generally have only a single user, and often
tons of arguments that aren't actually used.

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