Re: current_set symbol in GNU Mach

[Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:55 +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get Linux 2.2 sound drivers now, and I'm progressing. But
> there is a symbol I'm unable to handle correctly, which is current_set.
> From dev/include/linux/sched.h:
> extern struct task_struct *current_set[NR_CPUS];
> #define current (0+current_set[smp_processor_id()])     /* Current on this 
> processor */
> 
> The symbol named current_set doesn't exist. It looks like code using the
> macro named current is commented with #ifndef MACH ... #endif. My problem
> is that the sound drivers I'm trying to build use it in many places. Should
> I deactivate those parts ? Should they be replaced by a Mach specific call,
> and which one ? The same issue rose for pcmcia implementation, and comments
> by Stefan Siegl make me think he didn't fully solved the issue either.
> 

Hi Richard.

If you don't want "deactivate" those parts... Can't you "create" in any
way a empty symbol named current_set that match with the symbol the
driver wants?. It this possible?.

Thanks for your work.

Regards.

Jose.


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