Re: [PATCH 2/4] staging/lustre/obdclass: read jobid from proc

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 06:21:01AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > - * stored in between the "env_start" & "env_end" of task struct.
> > +static char *self_environ_file = "/proc/self/environ";
> 
> Heh, no, that's not ok at all.
> 
> This is a _huge_ sign that you are doing something wrong in your driver
> if you need something that isn't exported, or that you have to dig out
> of proc.
> 
> Sorry, I can't take this, please fix the underlying problems that would
> even think that you need access to the environment from within a kernel
> driver.

I took a stab at this.
This is not a final patch, I know there's still some number of checkpatch
warnings and the proc layout is not finalized yet for example.

But before I spend any more time in polishing this, can you please take a look
and advise if this direction would be acceptable for you when driven to
completion?

Thanks.