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

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:27:43 +0100
From:	Alexander Clouter <alex@...riz.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMware balloon: force compiling as a module

Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
*barf*

This surely is a problem in the installer and not the kernel?  Can you 
not nosey around in /sys/class/misc or where-ever your driver appears?  
If it does not, then I would probably suggest a patch to your balloon 
driver that dumps some details in there, including module version 
information.

Eugh.

-- 
Alexander Clouter
.sigmonster says: Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.
                  		-- Thomas Tusser

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