Tracker item #1865635, was opened at 2008-01-06 23:00 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by eatnumber1 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=1865635&group_id=204462
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Private: No Submitted By: Russell Harmon (eatnumber1) Assigned to: ECL (sopwith) Summary: FEATURE: Add the ability to include in the kernel. Initial Comment: It would be VERY nice if a makefile and instructions were included for including open-vm-tools as part of the kernel. I help maintain a small kernel patchset and would like to include open-vm-tools in it. I will write an example Makefile if I get the time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Russell Harmon (eatnumber1) Date: 2008-10-06 19:57 Message: It needs the Makefile to follow the conventions outlined at http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt;h=7a7753321a263f62c2a00c9d0e348716e701ac2c;hb=HEAD (or Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt in the tree), and you need to create a kbuild file defining what shows up in menuconfig (see http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt;h=c412c245848f9116fb05361bb78e5189b43cfd51;hb=HEAD or Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt in the tree). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dmitriy (bryndin) Date: 2008-05-09 14:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1494464 Originator: NO I'm using it as dkms modules. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: ECL (sopwith) Date: 2008-02-08 16:54 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=18318 Originator: NO Hey Russell - any progress with that example Makefile? I know the kernel modules already include a Makefile that ties in with the 2.6 kernel build system. While I'm totally ignorant about the kernel build system, what happens if you just 'mv open-vm-tools-2008.01.23*/modules/linux/vmhgfs /usr/src/linux/fs/vmhgfs' and fix up the top-level Makefiles to match? Are there any other technical tasks involved in integrating the modules into a kernel tree? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=1865635&group_id=204462 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
