* Metzger, Markus T <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> wrote:

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> > we could apply this if Roland Acks it - but i guess a precondition 
> > for that is to not include more ptrace extensions and to also start 
> > working on utrace support for it. Ptrace is something we want to 
> > reduce usage of, not extend.
> 
> The patch is not adding new features. It is merely re-establishing the 
> state before the patch mysteriously disappeared from x86#testing.

well, Roland is the de-facto ptrace maintainer and he has NAK-ed the 
current approach of extending ptrace, so i removed the patch. Is there 
anything particularly wrong about doing this based on utrace? The API 
will hit upstream in 2.6.26 or 2.6.27.

	Ingo
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