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From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] extend task comm from 16 to 24
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 17:02:12 +0100
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:

> > I thought Steven[1] and  Kees[2] have already clearly explained why we
> > do it like that, so I didn't give any more words on it.
> > 
> > [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211025170503.59830a43@gandalf.local.home/  
> 
> Steven was against switching task->comm[16] into a dynamically
> allocated pointer. But he was not against storing longer names
> separately.

Just to be clear. I was recommending that the comm[16] would still behave
like it does today. Where it is truncated. But if the name is longer, it
could be stored in a separate location if the caller wanted to know the
full name.

-- Steve