From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Maik Hentsche <maik.hentsche@amd.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 13:14:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <492D2F85.5050004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081126115915.4cf3308d@siegfried>
Maik Hentsche wrote:
> 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.
>
If the user specified $kerneldir, it should be in the form
/lib/modules/$version/build, no? If so, then you can extract $version
by removing the prefix and suffix from the string.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-26 11:14 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
2008-11-26 11:14 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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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