linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/12] export kernel call get_task

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Message-ID: <45773.10.23.16.85.1297194256.squirrel@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:44:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com
To:	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, suhail.ahmed@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] export kernel call get_task_comm()

> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:34:46AM -0800,
> james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com wrote:
>> From: J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>> This allows drivers who call this function to be compiled modularly.
>> Otherwise, a driver who is interested in this type of functionality
>> has to implement their own.
>
> NAK.
>
> From current you can just dereference current->comm, and access from
> other threads from drivers is a bad idea.
>
>

That is originally what I did, but after talking with Greg KH, Arjan vdv,
and Alan Cox I made this patch instead.

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