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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Remus breaks the build

To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Remus breaks the build
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:14:13 -0700
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 On 08/13/2010 12:42 PM, Brendan Cully wrote:
> I assume you're talking about this snippet of tools/remus/kmod/Makefile:
>
> $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules
>
> which expects to find a Makefile in $KERNELDIR but does the actual
> building in place, in the tools/remus/kmod directory (unless the
> kernel build system has changed recently?). I thought this was a
> pretty standard way to build out-of-tree kernel modules.

I don't ever build the kernel out of the Xen tree.  In general, it
assumes the kernel tree has already been configured and built, which may
not be true if you're doing a parallel build, or if you're building the
Xen tree piecewise.

> I'm not sure why this is causing you problems (is it?), but if you're
> willing to carry sch_queue in the pvops tree, I'd be happy to drop
> tools/remus/kmod in the unstable tree.

Yes, I'm happy to include it.  Do you have a git reference I can merge from?

    J

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