From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757028AbZEVJQs (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 05:16:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754074AbZEVJQk (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 05:16:40 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:36812 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753010AbZEVJQk (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 05:16:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:22:45 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Peter Oberparleiter Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Huang Ying , Li Wei , Michael Ellerman , Heiko Carstens , Martin Schwidefsky Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure Message-ID: <20090522092245.GC846@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20090519142416.356254359@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090519142418.583158351@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090519150031.GA21271@elte.hu> <4A16686C.7060800@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A16686C.7060800@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Back when kernel_execve() used to be called execve(), this function was > required to prevent linker errors. If it's generally agreed not to name > kernel functions execve(), this one might as well be removed (not sure > about such an agreement though). I think we can safely assume now that nothing in the kernel will be named execve. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.