Re: [PATCH 3/4] ia64: kill thread_matches(), unexport ptrace_check_attach()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Jan 20 2013 - 15:23:34 EST


On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c:thread_matches() has no users since e868a55c
> "[IA64] remove find_thread_for_addr()", remove it.

I think this one should go first, so that there are no stale callers
of ptrace_check_attach() when you change the semantics. In fact, I'll
apply it immediately, since it's clearly correct and independent of
the other changes.

Linus
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