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

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Message-Id: <20080122004004.a576acca.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:40:04 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 (KVM build issues)

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:56:32 +0530 Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> * 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,
>  };

This patch straddles such a pickle of other patches (driver tree, kvm, git-x86) that
there doesn't seem much point in me untangling it.  Presumably people will fix things
up as various trees merge into 2.6.25-rc1.

As long as Greg remembers to try to build kvm ;)
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