From: hch@calder.de (Christoph Hellwig)
To: barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com ("Anthony Barbachan")
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on porting 2.2.x driver to 2.4.x (reference namei)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:48:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107231048.f6NAmG326835@ns.caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <010201c1131d$7359d150$9865fea9@optima>
In article <010201c1131d$7359d150$9865fea9@optima> you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to port iBCS to the 2.4.x kernels. One of the compile
> problems I've run into is that the 2.4.x kernel includes lack a namei()
> function definition. I figure this function has been removed however what
> is its replacement? Or at least how do I replace its functionality? The
> section of code in iBCS in which this is used looks like this:
>
> dentry = namei(path);
> error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
>
> if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
Take a look at linux-abi (ftp.openlinux.org:/pub/people/hch/linux-abi),
specificly the file abi/svr4/xstat.c to see how to replace namei.
Christoph
P.S. linux-abi does for 2.4 for iBCS did for 2.2 - and more
--
Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
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