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From: Maik Hentsche <maik.hentsche@amd.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm-userspace: fix module build with --kerneldir
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:59:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081126115915.4cf3308d@siegfried> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492D27FA.5090707@redhat.com>

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Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:

> Can't the version be determined directly from kernedir itself?  e.g. 
> kerneldir is /lib/modules/$version/build?

How do you get $version if you are crosscompiling? In this case the
usual way of asking uname doesn't work. Instead you somehow need to get
the version of the kernel you're building for from the kernel source
provided in --kerneldir. I don't know any better way than evaluating
UTSRELEASE.

so long
Maik

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-26 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25 13:57 [PATCH] kvm-userspace: fix module build with --kerneldir Joerg Roedel
2008-11-26 10:42 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-26 10:59   ` Maik Hentsche [this message]
2008-11-26 11:14     ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-26 12:14       ` Maik Hentsche
2008-11-26 16:03         ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-26 12:16       ` Jan Kiszka
2008-11-26 16:00         ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-27 14:15           ` Eduardo Habkost
2008-11-27 14:26             ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-01 14:28 ` Maik Hentsche
2008-12-09 15:02   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-12-10 10:06     ` Avi Kivity

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