On 23 June 2011 10:41, Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On 6/22/2011 10:12 PM, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote: >> >> lock_depth field is removed from the power frequency events in the >> new linux kernel(2.6.38 onwards). So this creates issue to retrieve >> the lower members of the trace data. To fix this problem 2 separate >> structures are created and their use depends upon the format of the >> power_frequency events. These changes have been tested to work fine >> with both old and new kernels as well as on x86 and ARM platform. >> > > > eh no > > while it was temporarily removed in an -rc, it was added back (as padding) > after it was > found to break powertop (and abi). > > or am I missing something??? > > Ohh the padding field fixes this issue. Then this patch may not be needed. Thanks Arjan for quick review.
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