On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:15:10AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > > This causes the following compile error with CONFIG_PTRACE=y, > > CONFIG_PROC_FS=n: > > Bah. I moved ptrace_may_attach to fs/proc/base.c so that CONFIG_PTRACE=n > could just omit kernel/ptrace.c entirely and still get the function for > fs/proc/base.c to use (and because that uses it many more times than ptrace > does). I'd forgotten that procfs could be disabled, since noone ever does. > > What do people suggest? It's not a very big function.
Put it into some other place in kernel/ that's always build, e.g. kernel/sys.c and while you;re at it please give it a name that doesn't include the word ptrace. I remember mentioning that in my long utrace review mail.. :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
