Re: [RFC,PATCH 0/14] utrace/ptrace

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Yes. Which is a further argument to not do it like that but to do 
> > one arch at a time. Trying to do too much at once is bad 
> > engineering.
> 
> I'm not sure why you're trying to pick fights here, [...]

I am advocating proper engineering practices - not sure why you 
characterise it as 'picking fights'.

> [...] but no one has said about doing it all in once. [...]

To quote your mail in (<20091125214818.GA4916@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> > [...] I'd suggest you make sure the remaining two major 
> > architectures (arm and mips) get converted [...]

Spreading the impact of these changes to even more architectures is bad, 
for the reasons i outlined in my previous mail.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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