Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755701Ab1BHTjB (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:39:01 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:60552 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755155Ab1BHTjA (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:39:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:38:57 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suhail.ahmed@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] export kernel call get_task_comm() Message-ID: <20110208193857.GA8839@infradead.org> References: <1297193697-5417-1-git-send-email-james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com> <1297193697-5417-2-git-send-email-james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1297193697-5417-2-git-send-email-james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 678 Lines: 17 On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:34:46AM -0800, james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com wrote: > From: J Freyensee > > 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. -- 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/