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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Allow blktap to build as a module

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "John Byrne" <john.l.byrne@xxxxxx>, "xen-devel" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Allow blktap to build as a module
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:41:10 +0000
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>>> Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 03.01.07 09:20 >>>
>IIRC blktap doesn't straightforwardly build and work as a module. Some code
>cleanup is required (getting rid of zap_page_range()?). There's no point in
>taking the trivial Makefile fragment until that is fixed satisfactorily.

For the moment, we just leveraged the fact that in the SLE10 kernels
zap_page_range() is being exported for other reasons. In 10.2, we added
the export.

Jan

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