hi all: I found there seems no declaring about "struct ftrace_entry". below the greping result of my kernel source code: # grep -rwn 'struct ftrace_entry' * kernel/trace/trace.h:214: IF_ASSIGN(var, ent, struct ftrace_entry, TRACE_FN); \ kernel/trace/trace_events.c:1483: struct ftrace_entry *entry; kernel/trace/trace_output.c:818: struct ftrace_entry *field; kernel/trace/trace_output.c:845: struct ftrace_entry *field; kernel/trace/trace_output.c:859: struct ftrace_entry *field; kernel/trace/trace_output.c:872: struct ftrace_entry *field; kernel/trace/trace.c:1098: struct ftrace_entry *entry; # usually we use a struct we will declare its elements such as: struct usb_host_endpoint { struct usb_endpoint_descriptor desc; struct list_head urb_list; void *hcpriv; ...................... }; I guess the secret should be "if_assign", but how does compiler interpret it? -- Regards, miloody _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies