Re: Question on porting 2.2.x driver to 2.4.x (reference namei)

[Christoph Hellwig]

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
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