linux-kernel - Re: RFC - Cleaned up hypervisor layer

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Message-Id: <201005072254.11578.dtor@vmware.com>
Date:	Fri, 7 May 2010 22:54:10 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Hank Janssen <hjanssen@...rosoft.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
Subject: Re: RFC - Cleaned up hypervisor layer

On Friday 07 May 2010 03:43:04 pm H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> @@ -82,24 +82,21 @@ void __init vmware_platform_setup(void)
> 
>   * serial key should be enough, as this will always have a VMware
>   * specific string when running under VMware hypervisor.
>   */
> 
> -int vmware_platform(void)
> +static bool __init vmware_platform(void)

This will break our balloon driver which uses vmware_platform() to detect
whether it should run or not.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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