On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:13:56PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > This documents the intent for generic code to stop catering to old > arch code that has not been updated to the various new interfaces > that are indicated by 'select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK' in Kconfig. The > most-used arch's have already converted and some others are starting > to do so. Help for arch maintainers is available from me and Oleg > if they ask. (I already submitted 95% of the work for arch/arm, > though it has not gotten any feedback from those arch maintainers.) > > The ptrace maintainers and people working on other new features for > user task debugging and tracing need the freedom to reorganize the > generic code and make it depend on the modern set of arch interfaces. > With HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK, such work won't need arch-specific changes. This really isn't how feature-removal-schedule has been used in the past. Let's just take a look at this: Converted ~~~~~~~~~ ia64 powerpc s390 sh sparc x86 Not Converted (in mainline) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ alpha arm (you mention above you're waiting for the maintainer) avr32 blackfin cris frv h8300 m32r m68k m68knommu microblaze mips mn10300 parisc um xtensa so 6 converted, 16 not. I don't think you're at the stage where you can bully people into converting yet. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
