Re: utrace merge

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 - 14:43:13 EST


On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 11:36:24 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:06:44PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > urgh, I screwed up, sorry.
> > >
> > > utrace-prep-2 reverts a bit of the underlying tree so that the utrace
> > > patches (which are against mainline) don't throw a tremendous reject
> > > which has to be fixed each time I pull Roland's tree. I'm supposed to
> > > reapply that change after the utrace patches but forgot.
> >
> > btw., how about pushing utrace to v2.6.22, is anything big holding that
> > up? (other than Roland's modesty, which we should gently but firmly
> > ignore in this case =B-)
>
> a) lots of architecture support
> b) lots of overengineered and obsfucated code
> c) missing public information
>
> I've also not gotten any feedback to my ages old review and the issues
> don't seem to be addressed either.
>

And rmk had showstopper problems with ARM support which I never
saw resolved.
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