[PATCH] namespaces: utsname: introduce temporary helpers

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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Savochkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/include/linux/utsname.h b/include/linux/utsname.h
index 13e1da0c538d209871bb1099169004aa24d52072..77e97a5755d9b3044bedfd3329aa64a8d173c509 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/utsname.h
+++ b/include/linux/utsname.h
@@ -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