From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 13:16:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mwsloq4kc.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080505182937.GZ17139@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> (Adrian Bunk's message of "Mon, 5 May 2008 21:29:37 +0300")
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> writes:
> With the removal of the Solaris binary emulation the export of
> uts_sem became unused. [...]
>
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(uts_sem);
Am I correct that this would makes it invalid for modules to call
utsname() (since the protective semaphore is now hidden)? Systemtap
has been using them in order to validate the modules it builds against
possible kernel vs. kernel-devel differences.
- FChE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-20 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 18:29 [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem Adrian Bunk
2008-05-20 17:16 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2008-05-20 17:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-20 18:38 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-05-21 12:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 14:48 ` Steve French (smfltc)
2008-05-21 17:51 ` [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname() Alan Stern
2008-05-21 17:51 ` Alan Stern
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0805211349480.3409-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-21 18:09 ` Greg KH
2008-05-21 18:09 ` Greg KH
2008-05-21 18:19 ` Steve French (smfltc)
2008-05-21 18:19 ` Steve French (smfltc)
2008-05-21 18:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 18:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 19:35 ` Greg KH
2008-05-21 19:35 ` Greg KH
2008-05-21 21:01 ` Steve French (smfltc)
2008-05-21 21:01 ` Steve French (smfltc)
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-23 9:52 [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem Adrian Bunk
2008-04-23 10:50 ` David Miller
2005-04-15 15:10 Adrian Bunk
2005-03-04 0:50 Adrian Bunk
2005-03-04 12:57 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-04 13:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
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