Re: [PATCH 1/2] utrace core

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:08:54AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Why does it depend on MODULES? 
> 
> Because otherwise it's not adding anything new anyone can use.

It doesn't add anything new to use either way

> > Does this mean that when ptrace is switched to using the utrace engines,
> > non-modular kernels will have to lack ptrace(2)?
> 
> No.  If that were done, then it would be:
> 	depends on MODULE || PTRACE
> or suchlike.
> 
> > Is there anything in the code that actually breaks without
> > CONFIG_MODULES?
> 
> No.

In which case you should just remove this bogus (non-)dependency.
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