Re: [ 17/68] regset: Return -EFAULT, not -EIO, on host-side memoryfault

From: Jonathan Nieder
Date: Fri Mar 09 2012 - 15:53:06 EST


Greg KH wrote:

> "making things sane" is good enough for me :)

Thanks. That answers my question.

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 02:34:46PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Part of the reason I am asking is to figure out whether the patch
>> ought to be applied to 2.6.32.y, too.
>
> Why do you think it should not be?

I think it should be. If there were some motivation like "without
this patch, in circumstance X, gdb produces such-and-such bad
behavior", that would make it easier. ;-)

Ciao,
Jonathan
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