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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Build failure w/o mmu notifiers
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:51:00 +0200
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Cc: Sheng Yang <yasker@gmail.com>, KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> So if I don't select kvm in the kernel (either as module or compiled 
> in) I can't build an external module providing kvm's functionality? 
> That doesn't seem really useful to me...
>

The external module hackball should detect that you don't have 
CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIERS set and supply some compatibility glue.  What error 
are you seeing?

-- 
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