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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] VMware balloon: force compiling as a module
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:00:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100628230035.GA18971@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> (raw)

VMware Tools installer requires the upstream driver to be compiled
as a module in order to detect its presence and avoid installing
our own version on top of it. To avoid surprises with 2 versions
of the driver being installed and fighting with each other, let's
force the driver to be compiled as a module unless user selects
CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
---

Andrew,

Please consider forwarding this to Linus in your next batch.

Thanks,
Dmitry

 drivers/misc/Kconfig |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
index 26386a9..bb5b6ea 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ config TI_DAC7512
 
 config VMWARE_BALLOON
 	tristate "VMware Balloon Driver"
-	depends on X86
+	depends on X86 && (EMBEDDED || m)
 	help
 	  This is VMware physical memory management driver which acts
 	  like a "balloon" that can be inflated to reclaim physical pages
-- 
1.7.0


             reply	other threads:[~2010-06-28 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-28 23:00 Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2010-06-29  8:27 ` [PATCH] VMware balloon: force compiling as a module Alexander Clouter
2010-06-29 16:28   ` Bruno Prémont
2010-06-29 16:40     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-07-01 22:18       ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-01 22:31         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-07-01 22:43           ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-01 22:59             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-07-02  8:09               ` Alexander Clouter
2010-06-29 16:39   ` Dmitry Torokhov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-30 18:42 Chetan Loke
2010-06-30 19:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-06-30 21:26   ` Chetan Loke
2010-06-30 21:39     ` Dmitry Torokhov

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