Re: runtime transport changes

[Tom Zanussi <zanussi at us dot ibm dot com>]

Martin Hunt writes:
 > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:31 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:
 > 
 > >  > 5. Relayfs doesn't work on rawhide kernels, but the new transport works
 > >  > fine.
 > > 
 > > What you mean is systemtap doesn't work with relayfs on rawhide
 > > kernels, not that relayfs itself doesn't work, right?  I don't know
 > > what version of relayfs is in rawhide, but it should work fine for
 > > anything written to the corresponding API.
 > 
 > Unfortunately, rawhide does not yet include relayfs.  Building and
 > installing the loadable module from CVS does not work for rawhide.
 > Relayfs loads but does not work (at least with systemtap).

OK, it should work, but I'll look into it...

 > 
 > > I can update the systemtap transport to use whichever API is present
 > > on the target system, but I'm not sure about the best way to do it -
 > 
 > If the API changed, can you tell which version you have by grepping
 > System.map, kind of like stp_check does?
 > 
 > RELAYFS=`grep " relayfs_poll" /boot/System.map-\`uname -r\``

Yeah, that should work - I'll go ahead and make the changes.

Tom