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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] export get_task_comm()
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:26:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090126212615.2658b29e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090127051919.GA5034@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:19:19 -0500 Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:16:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Ho hum, I suppose so.  I redid the changelog a bit:
> > 
> >    task_struct.comm[] is useful for debugging and driver developers
> >    want to use this information easily.  Direct access to
> >    task_struct.comm[] is a bit racy, so export the official accessor.
> > 
> 
> Maybe lirc should be submitted to staging/ before we go exporting
> symbols for out of tree things... ;-)

y:/usr/src/linux-2.6.29-rc2> grep -r 'current->comm' drivers | wc -l
77

:(

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-27  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-16 19:32 get_task_comm() not exported? Christoph Bartelmus
2009-01-18 22:36 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-20 21:24   ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-01-27  5:09     ` [PATCH] export get_task_comm() KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-27  5:16       ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-27  5:19         ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-27  5:26           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-27  5:29             ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-27  5:39               ` [PATCH] make checkpatch warn about access to current->comm Kyle McMartin
2009-01-27  5:50                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-27  5:52                   ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-27  5:58                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-27  6:09                       ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-27 15:45                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-27 15:57                   ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-27 18:15                   ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-01-27  8:49               ` [PATCH] export get_task_comm() Alexey Dobriyan
2009-01-27  9:00                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-27 10:15                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-27 15:41         ` Linus Torvalds

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