Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] sockfd_lookup missing from older kernel patches
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:54:15 +0100

Hi Colin,

> I was updating a BlueZ package for the Sharp Zaurus PDAs that use the 2.4.18 
> kernel. The previous package had been using BlueZ libs and utils v2.3 and 
> patch 2.4.18-mh8 and had been working ok.
> 
> With the latest userspace source and patch 2.4.18-mh15 I noticed the function 
> sockfd_lookup had been removed from the sock.c files. This caused a 
> unresolved symbol error upon loading the bnep module on the Zaurus.
> 
> I noticed in the comments on http://www.holtmann.org/linux/kernel/ that 
> sockfd_lookup was removed on Dec 15, 2003 from kernel patches for kernels 
> 2.4.22 and later. I presume this function has been moved into more central 
> kernel code? Was this function supposed to be removed from the patches for 
> kernels 2.4.21 and earlier (or at least kernel 2.4.18)?

all -mh patches for 2.4 should deal correctly with an exported or non
exported sockfd_lookup(). I tested that a long time ago. However if you
got problems with then simply export that function from the socket core.

Regards

Marcel


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