Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/2] utrace/ptrace: simplify/cleanup ptrace attach

2009-05-06 Thread Roland McGrath
> It is far more efficient if Roland, Oleg (or you, if you are > interested in this stuff - which you seem to be) did RFC patches and > asked for maintainer acks, than to depend on maintainers to do it. This has been on offer since the first user_regset stuff went into 2.6.25, and I think I reit

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2009-05-06 Thread Frogge Hetu
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Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/2] utrace/ptrace: simplify/cleanup ptrace attach

2009-05-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:05:12AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > It might be more effective if you also wrote patches and if you > > would shop for maintainer Acks, instead of just "pinging" people? > > ;-) We've already got enough would-be-managers on lkml really.

Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/2] utrace/ptrace: simplify/cleanup ptrace attach

2009-05-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:05:12AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > It might be more effective if you also wrote patches and if you > would shop for maintainer Acks, instead of just "pinging" people? > ;-) We've already got enough would-be-managers on lkml really. I have no interest touching tons of

Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/2] utrace/ptrace: simplify/cleanup ptrace attach

2009-05-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:12:25AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Yes. But realize the fundamental reason for that: _without_ > > ptrace-over-utrace the utrace core code is a big chunk of dead code > > only used on the fringes. I see and agree with all the future us

Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/2] utrace/ptrace: simplify/cleanup ptrace attach

2009-05-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:12:25AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Yes. But realize the fundamental reason for that: _without_ > ptrace-over-utrace the utrace core code is a big chunk of dead code > only used on the fringes. I see and agree with all the future uses > of utrace, but it's easy to be p

Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/2] utrace/ptrace: simplify/cleanup ptrace attach

2009-05-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 05/04, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:43:48 -0700 (PDT) > > Roland McGrath wrote: > > > > > I guess we should take Andrew's advice on this. To me, it > > > makes most sense just to order the -mm patches so utrace comes > > > later, and replace