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Re: [PATCH] fix taskfinder2.c for kernels missing the dentry macro
- From: David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>
- To: William Cohen <wcohen at redhat dot com>, "systemtap at sourceware dot org" <systemtap at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 10:10:00 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix taskfinder2.c for kernels missing the dentry macro
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On 12/23/2014 03:37 PM, William Cohen wrote:
> The dentry macro has been removed from recent (3.18) kernels
>
(http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=78d28e651f97866d608d9b41f8ad291e65d47dd5).
> This was causing the following failure for systemtap:
... stuff removed ...
> The attached patch does allow things to compile and the tests to run,
> but I am not entirely sure that the patch does the right thing by
> omitting the setting of dentry. Does the patch look right?
Thanks for the report. Commit 547f629 is based on your patch, but it
still sets dentry everywhere and fixes a few more spots.
If this still causes problems please let me know.
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