Re: [PATCH] PV driver compatibility patch

["Ky Srinivasan" <ksrinivasan@novell.com>]

Ian,

Ignore my earlier email. The sles10 sp1 code is based on older code and does not have the stuff you have in compat shim. I ran into this problem when trying to build a PV driver targeted against RHEL5 and ran into this problem.

Regards,

K. Y

>>> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at  1:11 PM, in message
<1179249116.26437.39.camel@localhost.localdomain>, Ian Campbell
<Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com> wrote: 
> Isn't there already enough compat shim in
> unmodified_drivers/linux- 2.6/compat- include/xen/platform- compat.h for
> this stuff?
> 
> xenbus_probe.c already has the required #include, what is the error you
> saw?
> 
> Ian.
> 
> On Tue, 2007- 05- 15 at 11:05 - 0600, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
>> This patch fixes compilation issues on 2.6.16 kernels.
>> 
>> Signed- off- by: K. Y. Srinivasan  <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
>> 
> 
> 
>> ---
>> linux- 2.6- xen- sparse/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c      2007- 05- 14
>> 13:45:04.000000000 - 0400
>> +++
>> linux- 2.6- xen- sparse- new/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c  2007- 05- 15
>> 10:55:31.000000000 - 0400
>> @@ - 67,8 +67,11 @@
>>  static unsigned long xen_store_mfn;
>>  
>>  extern struct mutex xenwatch_mutex;
>> -
>> +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,17)
>> +static struct notifier_block *xenstore_chain;
>> +#else
>>  static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(xenstore_chain);
>> +#endif