Re: [Todo] Remove usage of (f)suser in kernel

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:35:24 +0100


On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:14:16PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> David Weinehall wrote:
> > After a quick round of grep:ing, I came up with the following files
> > needing fixes to substitute usage of (f)suser for proper capabilities:
> [...]
> > Since I don't know what the maintainers of some of these files want
> > as capabilities, I've decided not to fix this myself. zr36120.c is
> > only a matter of removing an #ifdef/#else/#endif combo and doing some
> > reindenting, though.
>
> We need to kill those in 2.5 I think. s/suser/capable(...)/ has been on
> the kernel janitor's list for a while.

That was kind of my intention behind this, yes.

/David
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