Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:26:15 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] export get_task_comm()
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:19:19 -0500 Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.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

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