Bug 557052

Summary:	media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25 file structure changes in kernel prevent emerging
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Moimas <diego.moimas>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Andrew Savchenko <bircoph>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	autobuilds
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch to be applied after other ebuild patches

Description Diego Moimas 2015-08-08 16:54:52 UTC

Created attachment 408552 [details, diff]
Patch to be applied after other ebuild patches

Can't emerge media-libs/svgalib on kernel 4.0.5, error on svgalib-helper kernel module. 

No more f_dentry on file struct.

Resolved patching file (...)work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/main.c with attached patch.


Emerge info: https://www.dropbox.com/s/74gxbfr0kmt6onl/emerge.info?dl=0

Comment 1 Andrew Savchenko gentoo-dev

2015-08-13 14:13:15 UTC

Diego, what about backwards compatibility of this patch?
Since what kernel versions file_inode() function appeared?

Comment 2 Alessandro Barbieri 2016-02-21 21:52:49 UTC

I have this bug too.

Comment 3 Andrew Savchenko gentoo-dev

2016-02-22 09:04:25 UTC

Fixed in the tree. (No revision bump here, please resync to update.)

file_inode() appeared in 3.9.0, so kernel version check ifdefs are added.