Re: [RFC] KVM Source layout Proposal to accommodate new CPU architecture

Hollis Blanchard
2007-10-02T01:19:48Z

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:56:16 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> Eventually I'd like to see the code in arch/*/kvm. That's probably not
> easily doable right now because modules cannot span directories, but
> once that's solved, we'll do that as this is most consistent with the
> rest of the kernel.

What is the "spanning directories" issue? Can't I build
arch/powerpc/kvm/kvm-powerpc.ko and drivers/kvm/kvm.ko and let modprobe
sort out the dependency?

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center