From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow blktap to build as a module Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:45:17 +0000 Message-ID: <20070103124517.GA3067@redhat.com> References: <459B7383.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <459B7A36.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <459B7A36.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jan Beulich Cc: xen-devel , John Byrne List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:41:10AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> Keir Fraser 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. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|