Messages in this thread | | | From | Alexander Clouter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VMware balloon: force compiling as a module | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:27:43 +0100 |
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Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> 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
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