linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/9] lguest: the asm offsets

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 10:09:39 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, ak@...e.de
Subject: Re: [patch 4/9] lguest: the asm offsets

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 22:46 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:51:36AM -0700, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> > From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> > 
> > This is the structure offsets required by lg.ko's switcher.S.
> > 
> > Unfortunately we don't have infrastructure for private asm-offsets
> > creation.
> Someone maybe it was Oleg? did an OK job to abstract out asm-offset
> generation. I asked to have it rebased but never heard anything back.
> 
> I would like to get this generic approach in and then let lguest use it.
> But I do not see this as a reason to hold back inclusion in -linus.

Hi Sam,

	Yeah, I never heard back either.  And I'm reluctant to try to fix it
myself: I've never managed to patch the build system without causing you
to rewrite it better 8)

> But could we please get rid of the "../../../" in the include....

	Sure: but how?  It's a private internal include for the lg.ko module.

Thanks!
Rusty.


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