Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754011Ab0F2IfM (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:35:12 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44794 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753534Ab0F2IfG (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:35:06 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alexander Clouter Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMware balloon: force compiling as a module Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:27:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20100628230035.GA18971@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: chipmunk.wormnet.eu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.26-2-sparc64-smp (sparc64)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1077 Lines: 23 Dmitry Torokhov 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/