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From: Frank Ch. Eigler
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 10:16 am

Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> writes:


Am I correct that this would makes it invalid for modules to call
utsname() (since the protective semaphore is now hidden)?  Systemtap
has been using them in order to validate the modules it builds against
possible kernel vs. kernel-devel differences.

- FChE
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[2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem, Adrian Bunk, (Mon May 5, 11:29 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem, Frank Ch. Eigler, (Tue May 20, 10:16 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem, Christoph Hellwig, (Tue May 20, 10:27 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem, Frank Ch. Eigler, (Tue May 20, 11:38 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem, Christoph Hellwig, (Wed May 21, 5:37 am)
Re: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem, Steve French (smfltc), (Wed May 21, 7:48 am)
[PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname(), Alan Stern, (Wed May 21, 10:51 am)
Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname(), Greg KH, (Wed May 21, 11:09 am)
Re: Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname(), Steve French (smfltc), (Wed May 21, 11:19 am)
Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname(), Christoph Hellwig, (Wed May 21, 11:52 am)
Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname(), Greg KH, (Wed May 21, 12:35 pm)
Re: Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname(), Steve French (smfltc), (Wed May 21, 2:01 pm)