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Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Adrian Bunk <bunk at kernel dot org>
- Cc: linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, "David S. Miller" <davem at sunset dot davemloft dot net>, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation dot org>, systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 13:16:19 -0400
- Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem
- References: <20080505182937.GZ17139@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> writes:
> With the removal of the Solaris binary emulation the export of
> uts_sem became unused. [...]
>
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(uts_sem);
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