Re: [patch 3/5] x86: headers cleanup - ptrace-abi.h

[H. Peter Anvin]

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> 
> Hi Markus,
> 
> since it's supposed to be visible by userspace then we
> should just remove this CONFIG_X86_PTRACE_BTS so if userspace
> app has a reference to ptrace_bts_config but kernel in turn has
> this feature turned off -- the uerspace app shouldn't fail
> while being compiling.
> 

Well, for userspace, the kernel configuration doesn't matter: the
CONFIG_* macros *never* exist.

This would be yet another good reason why having them be always defined
and 0/1 instead would be such an improvement, but we're not there.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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