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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kvm-kmod.git
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:19:55 +0300
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Ryan Harper wrote:
> % cd kvm
> % git checkout -f 2.6.29-stable origins/maint/2.6.29
> % cd ../kvm-kmod.git
> % ./configure
> % make LINUX=../kvm sync
> ./sync -v kvm-devel -l ../kvm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./sync", line 207, in <module>
>     source_sync(arch)
>   File "./sync", line 200, in source_sync
>     hack(T, arch, i)
>   File "./sync", line 123, in hack
>     _hack(T + '/' + file, arch)
>   File "./sync", line 114, in _hack
>     data = file(fname).read()
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'source/timer.c'
> make: *** [sync] Error 1
>
> kvm.git on branch kvm-85:
> % make LINUX=/home/rharper/work/git/kvm sync
> ./sync -v kvm-devel -l /home/rharper/work/git/kvm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./sync", line 207, in <module>
>     source_sync(arch)
>   File "./sync", line 200, in source_sync
>     hack(T, arch, i)
>   File "./sync", line 123, in hack
>     _hack(T + '/' + file, arch)
>   File "./sync", line 114, in _hack
>     data = file(fname).read()
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'source/eventfd.c'
> make: *** [sync] Error 1
>
> kvm.git on branch kvm-86:
> % make LINUX=/home/rharper/work/git/kvm sync
> ./sync -v kvm-devel -l /home/rharper/work/git/kvm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./sync", line 207, in <module>
>     source_sync(arch)
>   File "./sync", line 200, in source_sync
>     hack(T, arch, i)
>   File "./sync", line 123, in hack
>     _hack(T + '/' + file, arch)
>   File "./sync", line 114, in _hack
>     data = file(fname).read()
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'source/eventfd.c'
> make: *** [sync] Error 1
>
>
> only branch master seems to work with kvm-kmod
>
>   

Well there are differences in the source trees, so they need different 
hacking.  There is a branch for 2.6.30 in kvm-kmod.git, but 2.6.29 is 
slightly different and doesn't have a branch.  You can just remove the 
offending files from ./sync, there's a good chance it will work.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.