Thanks for taking notes, Elena and Jim. I'll elaborate the various ideas in separate threads as promised. But here I can clarify some minor points.
> git tree status > > 2.6.28-rc7 patches. Updated December 2. See the git tree. git tree == > linus' latest tree + utrace patches. No changes, but now based on 2.6.28-rc8 (12/10). > 2.6.27 there are 2 patches for > ia64-> do not use, not tested > i386-> ok to use x86 (32/64 both) > makefile patch, one word change (?) This refers to the patch conflict from applying 2.6-current/utrace.patch to a 2.6.27 source tree (look at the patch reject and it will be obvious). There is no conflict fixup required in the actual code. Thanks, Roland