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From: lirc@bartelmus.de (Christoph Bartelmus)
To: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: get_task_comm() not exported?
Date: 20 Jan 2009 22:24:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AuEeLWHZjFB@christoph> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090120071641.B0A3.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>

Hi,

on 19 Jan 09 at 07:36, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> is there any reason why get_task_comm() is not exported in fs/exec.c?

> In general, the only function of anybody necessarity explained is exported.
> if you want to export get_task_comm(), you need to explain reasonable
> reason.

It's nothing that important: just want to print the executable name to the  
logs during error handling. get_task_comm() is the required accessor  
function.

http://lirc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lirc/lirc/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c?revision=1.70&view=markup

Cheers,
Christoph

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-20 22:06 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 [this message]
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
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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