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Message-Id: <20090126212918.d4770115.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:29:18 -0800 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@...telmus.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] export get_task_comm() On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:26:15 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:19:19 -0500 Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:16:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Ho hum, I suppose so. I redid the changelog a bit: > > > > > > task_struct.comm[] is useful for debugging and driver developers > > > want to use this information easily. Direct access to > > > task_struct.comm[] is a bit racy, so export the official accessor. > > > > > > > Maybe lirc should be submitted to staging/ before we go exporting > > symbols for out of tree things... ;-) > > y:/usr/src/linux-2.6.29-rc2> grep -r 'current->comm' drivers | wc -l > 77 > > :( It's worth a checkpatch rule, I guess: "direct access to task_struct.comm is racy - use get_task_comm()". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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