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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] raisin: RFC Add blktap2 as an external
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:47:20 +0100
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On 04/21/2015 11:42 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> The only reason to disable this on ARM at the minute is because you
>> *believe* that nobody will ever want to build the blktap2 kernel module
>> on ARM, and so you want to avoid the build overhead and space overhead
>> of compiling and using dead code.  If that's your goal, you might get
>> more mileage out of disabling stuff like xenmon or the paging code. :-)
> 
> No, that is not right. The reason I would like to disable blktap2 for
> ARM is that the userspace binaries and libraries won't compile on ARM at
> the moment. At least that was the case the last time I tried it. If you
> prove me wrong, I would be happy to have blktap2 on ARM too.

Right, I didn't realize that.  That's certainly a good reason to disable
it on ARM. :-)

 -George