Re: [PATCH 01/12] export kernel call get_task_comm()

[james_p_freyensee]

> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:34:46AM -0800,
> james_p_freyensee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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.

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