linux-kernel - [PATCH] VMware balloon: force compiling as a module

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:00:35 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] VMware balloon: force compiling as a module

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@...are.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

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