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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 13:27:30 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem
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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:16:19PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Am I correct that this would makes it invalid for modules to call
> utsname() (since the protective semaphore is now hidden)?

Yesm they should never had done that anyway.  The module support
does it's own version checking already.