The patch titled ptrace needs PROC_FS has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ptrace-needs-proc_fs.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ptrace needs PROC_FS From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> CONFIG_PTRACE needs PROC_FS; with CONFIG_PROC_FS=n (x86_64): LD .tmp_vmlinux1 kernel/built-in.o: In function `ptrace_start': ptrace.c:(.text+0x300f9): undefined reference to `ptrace_may_attach' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- init/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN init/Kconfig~ptrace-needs-proc_fs init/Kconfig --- a/init/Kconfig~ptrace-needs-proc_fs +++ a/init/Kconfig @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ config UTRACE config PTRACE bool "Legacy ptrace system call interface" default y - depends on UTRACE + depends on UTRACE && PROC_FS help Enable the ptrace system call. This is traditionally used by debuggers like GDB, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch cpuidle-unsigned-bitfield.patch acpi-dock-use-null-for-pointer.patch nozomi-use-null-for-pointers.patch git-drm.patch romfs-printk-format-warnings.patch git-netdev-all.patch git-scsi-misc.patch git-unionfs.patch git-ipwireless_cs.patch i386-fix-gdts-number-of-quadwords-in.patch scripts-kernel-doc-whitespace-cleanup.patch reiserfs-proc-support-requires-proc_fs.patch kprobes-fix-sparse-null-warning.patch ext4-use-null-for-pointers.patch some-grammatical-fixups-and-additions-to-atomich-kernel-doc.patch profile-likely-unlikely-macros.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html