Bug 552090 – app-misc/lirc-0.9.0 using macro definition f_dentry. This definition removed at kernel 3.19.

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 548610
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Atlant 2015-06-14 12:07:36 UTC]

Need change "file->f_dentry" to "file->file->f_path.dentry" from file "lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.compile & use kernel 3.19 with kernel-headers or above 
2.compile lirc 0.9.0 -> FAIL

[Comment 1 Atlant 2015-06-14 12:09:34 UTC]

Created attachment 405136 [details, diff]
patch for change from "f_dentry" to "f_path.dentry"

[Comment 2 Atlant 2015-06-14 12:11:02 UTC]

Created attachment 405138 [details]
ebuild with using this patch

[Comment 3 Atlant 2015-06-14 12:21:00 UTC]

additional motivation : http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=78d28e651f97866d608d9b41f8ad291e65d47dd5

[Comment 4 Atlant 2015-06-14 12:24:47 UTC]

from compilation log
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/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c: In function 'lirc_dev_fop_poll':
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:623:39: error: 'struct file' has no member named 'f_dentry'
  struct irctl *ir = irctls[iminor(file->f_dentry->d_inode)];
                                       ^
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c: In function 'lirc_dev_fop_ioctl':
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:669:39: error: 'struct file' has no member named 'f_dentry'
  struct irctl *ir = irctls[iminor(file->f_dentry->d_inode)];
                                       ^
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c: In function 'lirc_dev_fop_read':
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:754:39: error: 'struct file' has no member named 'f_dentry'
  struct irctl *ir = irctls[iminor(file->f_dentry->d_inode)];
                                       ^
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c: In function 'lirc_get_pdata':
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:855:18: error: 'struct file' has no member named 'f_dentry'
  if (file && file->f_dentry && file->f_dentry->d_inode &&
                  ^
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:855:36: error: 'struct file' has no member named 'f_dentry'
  if (file && file->f_dentry && file->f_dentry->d_inode &&
                                    ^
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:856:10: error: 'struct file' has no member named 'f_dentry'
      file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_rdev) {
          ^
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:858:26: error: 'struct file' has no member named 'f_dentry'
   ir = irctls[iminor(file->f_dentry->d_inode)];
                          ^
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c: In function 'lirc_dev_fop_write':
/var/tmp/paludis/app-misc-lirc-0.9.0-r5/work/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:870:39: error: 'struct file' has no member named 'f_dentry'
  struct irctl *ir = irctls[iminor(file->f_dentry->d_inode)];
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[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2015-07-10 10:28:40 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 548610 ***