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

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Hi Srinivasa,

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 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.

That patch is for -mm tree, so we can't use KERNEL_VERSION.
Instead of that, I recommend using autoconf.

> 
> - FChE

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Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com