Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/8] ACPI: add processor driver for Xenvirtual CPUs.

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Tue Dec 13 2011 - 02:45:30 EST


>>> On 12.12.11 at 18:29, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 09:24:23AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 30.11.11 at 18:21, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > --- a/drivers/acpi/Makefile
>> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
>> > @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD)+= custom_method.o
>> > # processor has its own "processor." module_param namespace
>> > processor-y := processor_driver.o processor_throttling.o
>> > processor-y += processor_idle.o processor_thermal.o
>> > +processor-y += processor_xen.o
>>
>> This should minimally be processor-$(CONFIG_XEN), with other things
>> adjusted as necessary.
>
> I was under the impression that this was required to get the
> processor_xen.ko
> to be a module. Otherwise it would only compile as built-in.

processor_xen.ko? Why not have all the code go into processor.ko?
(And the original construct didn't aim in that direction either.)

Jan

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