Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753479AbZA0FTl (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:19:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751213AbZA0FTd (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:19:33 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:41027 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751178AbZA0FTd (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:19:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:19:19 -0500 From: Kyle McMartin To: Andrew Morton Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Christoph Bartelmus , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] export get_task_comm() Message-ID: <20090127051919.GA5034@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20090120071641.B0A3.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090128140615.D464.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090126211655.c7287768.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090126211655.c7287768.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 16 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... ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/