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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
Cc: Linux-Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Todo] Remove usage of (f)suser in kernel
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:14:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0E63F8.8CD0B9CA@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011205181558.R360@khan.acc.umu.se>

David Weinehall wrote:
> After a quick round of grep:ing, I came up with the following files
> needing fixes to substitute usage of (f)suser for proper capabilities:
[...]
> Since I don't know what the maintainers of some of these files want
> as capabilities, I've decided not to fix this myself. zr36120.c is
> only a matter of removing an #ifdef/#else/#endif combo and doing some
> reindenting, though.

We need to kill those in 2.5 I think.  s/suser/capable(...)/ has been on
the kernel janitor's list for a while.

	Jeff


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-05 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-05 17:15 [Todo] Remove usage of (f)suser in kernel David Weinehall
2001-12-05 18:14 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-12-05 18:35   ` David Weinehall

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