[Bug 46472] Linux kernel 4.19 breaks startup of BO2 due to change in PTRACE_POKEUSER hw breakpoint behavior

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46472

--- Comment #22 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> ---
(In reply to tjb from comment #21)
> (In reply to Anthony Jagers from comment #20)
> > I tried to file a bug report with the kernel mailing list. Either it got
> > rejected or buried.  Anyone else want to try?
> 
> The kernel guys will need a specific example of why the patch is broken. 
> The fact that wine used to work on some programs and doesn't work any more
> with new PTRACE_POKEUSER behavior is not going to matter to them unless it
> can be shown the change (claimed as a fix) is actually incorrect.  Thus it
> most likely falls to a core wine dev to smoke this out, someone who actually
> implemented the low level PTRACE code and would know that the new interface
> behavior is incorrect, or that the new interface behavior is actually the
> correct approach and wine needs to be updated to accommodate it.

Did you actually talk to the kernel guys, or are you just guessing?
They usually take backwards compatibility seriously.

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