Re: 2.6.10 and acpi_get_possible_resources? *solved*

[Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:00:37AM +0100, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 15:40 +0100, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> > I am trying to get the WACOM ACPI patches working on 2.6.10 but it bails
> > out on a missing function "acpi_get_possible_resources". On 2.6.9 the
> > needed symbol is exported by acpi_ksyms.c but this file no longer exists
> > in 2.6.10. 
> > 
> > What is the best way to get the acpi_get_possible_resources function
> > exported properly? It is defined in <acpi/acpxf.h> but adding this to
> > the wacom source files did not help.
> > 
> > The 2.6.9 version of the wacom patches are from:
> > 
> > http://www.theory.bham.ac.uk/staff/schofield/linux/tc1100/linux-2.6.9-
> > wacom_acpi.patch
> 
> Problem solved. The functions from <acpi/acpixf.h> needed a #define
> ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE 1 to work again.
> 
> My wacom tablet is working again with 2.6.10.
> 
A better fix, though, would be to move the specific export you
need out of the FUTURE_USAGE define. This ifdef was introduced
to eliminate bloat due to unused exports, and including it all
back in defeats the purpose.

Rajesh


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