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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:28:59 +0200 From: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org> To: Alexander Clouter <alex@...riz.org.uk>, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMware balloon: force compiling as a module On Tue, 29 June 2010 Alexander Clouter <alex@...riz.org.uk> wrote: > 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. In addition, the installer may check under /sys/module/ for it (as for any/most code that can be built as a module), even for built-in code. (if balloon driver does not show up there when built-in it would be better to get it to show up there) Bruno -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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