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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio to GPL modules
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:56:08PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 16:41 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > LTTng needs this symbol to prepend the current task dynamic priority
> > value to events (optional context information).
> 
> I absolutely detest exporting such stuff. It propagates the idea that
> task prio actually means something. Also, modules really shouldn't care.

Mathieu, if you don't have this information, does anything really care?

thanks,

greg k-h