From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Byrne Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow blktap to build as a module Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:15:42 -0800 Message-ID: <459BF2CE.3090702@hp.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Keir Fraser Cc: xen-devel , Jan Beulich List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Keir Fraser wrote: > 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. > > -- Keir I thought I'd tested it. (You had me worried) zap_page_range() got exported in 12678:260426e3924f as part of the virtual frame buffer patch. If Jan has a patch that doesn't change the name, that would be better. I didn't much like the name change, but I was being lazy. John > > On 3/1/07 8:12 am, "Jan Beulich" wrote: > >> I had posted a patch for this quite a while back (no clue why it wasn't picked >> up), >> though allowing the module to be more logically named blktap.ko. I'd really >> dislike to >> now have a blktp.ko. Jan >> >>>>> John Byrne 03.01.07 01:58 >>> >> The patch is against xen-unstable 13205:886f7312257e, but should also >> apply to 3.0.4. >> >> Signed-off-by: John Byrne >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-devel mailing list >> Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com >> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel > > >