linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts

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Message-ID: <20080520172730.GA2361@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 13:27:30 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...set.davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	systemtap@...rces.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:16:19PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Am I correct that this would makes it invalid for modules to call
> utsname() (since the protective semaphore is now hidden)?

Yesm they should never had done that anyway.  The module support
does it's own version checking already.

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