Re: [patch] s390: Remove self ptrace IEEE_IP hack.

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On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 05:19 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:14:56AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The self referential PT_IEEE_IP ptrace peek & poke calls have been
> > broken for that last 6 years. For peek the code always returns 0
> > instead of the last ieee fault and for poke the code does nothing.
> > Since nobody noticed the code seems to be superfluous. So lets
> > remove it.
> 
> After this the switch to the generic sys_ptrace is trivial.  Care to
> submit a patch for that aswell?

True, that makes sense. I'll do that right after lunch.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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