Re: [PATCH] ptrace: arch_ptrace cleanup

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> This intends to remove the last bit of entanglement with core ptrace
> implementation details in arch code's arch_ptrace and arch_compat_ptrace.

So I think this has a nicer calling convention, but you never answered the 
question about what the *point* of this all is.

This is _still_ uglier than what we already have, which is to just have 
the code call "[compat_]ptrace_request()" for any cases they don't 
recognize.

I wanted to know if there was some actual technical point to it, and never 
got a reply to that. 

			Linus
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