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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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       "David S. Miller" <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem
References: <20080505182937.GZ17139@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 13:16:19 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20080505182937.GZ17139@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> (Adrian Bunk's message of "Mon, 5 May 2008 21:29:37 +0300")
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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