I don't own fs/exec.c.  I own the PTI driver which is a deliverable to
customers which can be fixed quicker in the short-term.  In a previous
email Alan even eluded to it might take some time to have that kernel code
changed.


> On 10/22/2010 5:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> From: J Freyensee<[email protected]>
>>
>>  From a previous Meego upstream review, it was asked to use
>> get_task_comm() for the needs of this driver.  Well, that
>> breaks kernel module compilation. The workaround is the
>> exact same code found in fs/exec.c was cut-and-pasted and
>> made a local static function,
>> as it was deemed bad to use the global variable 'current'
>> (which other drivers accepted in the kernel do).
>
> wouldn't a better workaround be to add an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to fs/exec.c
> ?
>
>
>

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