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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. -- 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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