[RFC] [PATCH] To make systemtap work on 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> writes:

> I was testing Masami's kprobes patch on x86_64. I found that some
> changes in vfs and Roland's fix (those are present in -mm1) have
> made systemtap not to work on -mm1. [...]  I have developed the
> patch, which fixes this issue. [...]

In order to retain backward compatibility with older kernels, the code
would need to have #if KERNEL_VERSION conditionals to retain the old
ones too.

- FChE