The patch titled namespaces: utsname: introduce temporary helpers has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is namespaces-utsname-introduce-temporary-helpers.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: namespaces: utsname: introduce temporary helpers From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Define utsname() and init_utsname() which return &system_utsname. Users of system_utsname will be changed to use these helpers, after which system_utsname will disappear. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/utsname.h | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/utsname.h~namespaces-utsname-introduce-temporary-helpers include/linux/utsname.h --- 25/include/linux/utsname.h~namespaces-utsname-introduce-temporary-helpers Fri May 19 11:40:04 2006 +++ 25-akpm/include/linux/utsname.h Fri May 19 11:40:04 2006 @@ -32,5 +32,15 @@ struct new_utsname { extern struct new_utsname system_utsname; +static inline struct new_utsname *utsname(void) +{ + return &system_utsname; +} + +static inline struct new_utsname *init_utsname(void) +{ + return &system_utsname; +} + extern struct rw_semaphore uts_sem; #endif _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from serue@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch namespaces-add-nsproxy.patch namespaces-incorporate-fs-namespace-into-nsproxy.patch namespaces-utsname-introduce-temporary-helpers.patch namespaces-utsname-switch-to-using-uts-namespaces.patch namespaces-utsname-use-init_utsname-when-appropriate.patch namespaces-utsname-implement-utsname-namespaces.patch namespaces-utsname-sysctl-hack.patch namespaces-utsname-remove-system_utsname.patch namespaces-utsname-implement-clone_newuts-flag.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html