From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
John Byrne <john.l.byrne@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow blktap to build as a module
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:45:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070103124517.GA3067@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459B7A36.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:41:10AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk> 03.01.07 09:20 >>>
> >IIRC blktap doesn't straightforwardly build and work as a module. Some code
> >cleanup is required (getting rid of zap_page_range()?). There's no point in
> >taking the trivial Makefile fragment until that is fixed satisfactorily.
>
> For the moment, we just leveraged the fact that in the SLE10 kernels
> zap_page_range() is being exported for other reasons. In 10.2, we added
> the export.
We did likewise for Fedora & RHEL - it was pretty trivial really to make
it work as a module.
Regards,
Dan.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-03 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-03 0:58 [PATCH] Allow blktap to build as a module John Byrne
2007-01-03 8:12 ` Jan Beulich
2007-01-03 8:20 ` Keir Fraser
2007-01-03 8:41 ` Jan Beulich
2007-01-03 12:45 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2007-01-03 18:15 ` John Byrne
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