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

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.

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