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

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:14:16 -0500

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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.

Jeff

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