Re: [PATCH] pre-decoded wchan output

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 18:08:57 EST

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Hi!

> > Can't you just left the old, nuerical one in even if CONFIG_KALLSYMS
> > ise set? One ifdef less and far less surprises..
>
> But why? Save the call to get_wchan()...

Yes, and force users to update procps for no good reason. And "new"
procps will still need code to deal with get_wchan themselves... Plus
you loose information by killing get_wchan() -- two different wait
points in one function seems very possible to me.
Pavel

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