Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] export kernel call get_task_comm(). | From | J Freyensee <> | Date | Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:16:08 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 16:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:14:21 -0700 > Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > > > But as David pointed out, if there is work other than mine coming that > > > has already been proposed, wouldn't it be good to get this patch in > > > place now to start the encouragement of future eyes to just call this > > > function than re-invent the wheel? > > > > No, then those projects submit the patch to export this, if they happen > > to get to mainline before this one does. > > > > Again, don't export something unless you are using it at the time, no > > "this is to be used hopefully by something in the future" type stuff > > please. Who knows if those future plans ever pan out. > > Well there's an easy solution here. Send the patch to export > get_task_comm(), then send along some patches which fix > > z:/usr/src/linux-2.6.39-rc4> grep -r 'current->comm' drivers | wc -l > 89 >
Andrew, so does this mean you want me to send this patch to export get_task_comm() to you then?
Thanks, Jay
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