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Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk at kernel dot org>, 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 13:27:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem
- References: <20080505182937.GZ17139@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <y0mwsloq4kc.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com>
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:16:19PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Am I correct that this would makes it invalid for modules to call
> utsname() (since the protective semaphore is now hidden)?
Yesm they should never had done that anyway. The module support
does it's own version checking already.