linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 (KVM build issues)

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:56:32 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 (KVM build issues)

* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> [2008-01-17 02:35:14]:

> - kvm probably doesn't work properly because I couldn't be bothered fixing
>   the conflicts between git-kvm and the driver tree
> 

Hi, Andrew,

The following changes got KVM up and running for me


This patch fixes the kvm build on 2.6.24-rc8-mm1. First of all, it enables
the KVM build, the second fix moves kset_set_name to the .name member.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 arch/x86/Makefile   |    2 +-
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/x86/Makefile~fix-kvm-build arch/x86/Makefile
--- linux-2.6.24-rc8/arch/x86/Makefile~fix-kvm-build	2008-01-18 22:42:41.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc8-balbir/arch/x86/Makefile	2008-01-18 22:42:47.000000000 +0530
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ core-y += arch/x86/vdso/
 core-$(CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION) += arch/x86/ia32/
 
 # kvm host support - uncomment when merging
-# core-$(CONFIG_KVM) += arch/x86/kvm/
+core-$(CONFIG_KVM) += arch/x86/kvm/
 
 # drivers-y are linked after core-y
 drivers-$(CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION) += arch/x86/math-emu/
diff -puN virt/kvm/kvm_main.c~fix-kvm-build virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
--- linux-2.6.24-rc8/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c~fix-kvm-build	2008-01-18 22:42:41.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc8-balbir/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c	2008-01-18 22:42:47.000000000 +0530
@@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ static int kvm_resume(struct sys_device 
 }
 
 static struct sysdev_class kvm_sysdev_class = {
-	set_kset_name("kvm"),
+	.name = "kvm",
 	.suspend = kvm_suspend,
 	.resume = kvm_resume,
 };
_

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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