Re: [patch 4/9] lguest: the asm offsets

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Wed May 09 2007 - 20:09:53 EST


On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 22:46 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:51:36AM -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This is the structure offsets required by lg.ko's switcher.S.
> >
> > Unfortunately we don't have infrastructure for private asm-offsets
> > creation.
> Someone maybe it was Oleg? did an OK job to abstract out asm-offset
> generation. I asked to have it rebased but never heard anything back.
>
> I would like to get this generic approach in and then let lguest use it.
> But I do not see this as a reason to hold back inclusion in -linus.

Hi Sam,

Yeah, I never heard back either. And I'm reluctant to try to fix it
myself: I've never managed to patch the build system without causing you
to rewrite it better 8)

> But could we please get rid of the "../../../" in the include....

Sure: but how? It's a private internal include for the lg.ko module.

Thanks!
Rusty.


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