Re: [Patch 00/12] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces

From: Alan Stern
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 16:02:28 EST


On Wed, 13 May 2009, K.Prasad wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> Please find a new set of patches with the following changes.
> I am eager to know if you think that they are ready for submission towards
> upstream acceptance.

This is looking pretty good. Only one thing caught my eye:
switch_to_thread_hw_breakpoint and switch_to_none_hw_breakpoint do
nothing but call the corresponding arch-specific routines. You might
as well eliminate them and have the callers invoke the arch-specific
routines instead.

Alan Stern

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