Re: [RFC PATCH 14/43] ptrace, frv: change signature of arch_ptrace()

From: David Howells
Date: Fri Aug 27 2010 - 09:23:23 EST


Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In this series, 3/43 changes the prototype of arch_ptrace() in
> include/linux/ptrace.h and the following patches change it for each arch in
> arch/xxx/kernel/ptrace.c. Do you mean all of arch change patches should be
> combinded into a patch?

If patch 3 breaks all architectures, such that none of them then compile, this
is bad. The fixes should be combined into that patch.

If it breaks them such that there are warnings, but they still compile, we can
probably live with that, but it's still icky.

David
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