linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/cpu] Modify the VMware balloon driver for the new x86

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Date:	Sun, 09 May 2010 01:20:44 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	greg@...ah.com, hjanssen@...rosoft.com, ksrinivasan@...ell.com,
	dtor@...are.com, tglx@...utronix.de, akataria@...are.com
CC:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/cpu] Modify the VMware balloon driver for the new x86_hyper
 API

On 05/09/2010 01:19 AM, tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>  
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("VMware, Inc.");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VMware Memory Control (Balloon) Driver");
> @@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ static int __init vmballoon_init(void)
>  	 * Check if we are running on VMware's hypervisor and bail out
>  	 * if we are not.
>  	 */
> -	if (!vmware_platform())
> +	if (x86_hyper != &x86_hyper_vmware)
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
>  	vmballoon_wq = create_freezeable_workqueue("vmmemctl");

Note: I did not change the existing code, but this is an example of a
very common bug: the appropriate error code for "hardware is not
present" is ENXIO, not ENODEV.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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