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

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:41:10AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> 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.

We did likewise for Fedora & RHEL - it was pretty trivial really to make
it work as a module.

Regards,
Dan.
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