On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 09:18:04 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 6:47 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Also had to update a lot of the function pointer initialization in the > > networking code, as a function address must be passed as an argument in > > RCU_INIT_POINTER() and not just the function name, otherwise the following > > error occurs: > > Ugh. > > I think this is a sign of why we did it the way we did with that odd > "typeof(*p)*" thing in the first place. > Oh, which was also compiler specific. On my fedora box, which has: gcc version 10.3.1 20210422 (Red Hat 10.3.1-1) (GCC) It compiled fine, with no errors. But on my Debian box with: gcc version 10.2.1 20210110 (Debian 10.2.1-6) The function pointers were an issue :-/ -- Steve
