SUMMARY: Is there any tool or release that aids in integrating Open VM Tools
modules directly into my Linux kernel src tree?
DETAIL:
I maintain a few Linux kernels at my job. I build many kernels from the same
host, and need to build open vm tools (a.k.a. ovt) for each kernel. In other
words, I need to build for kernels that are not the installed and running
kernel.
For our past kernel, 2.6.27, I extracted the modules src from under ovt, and
integrated it under my linux kernel src tree, including patching the various
Kconfig's so that ovt was configurable via menuconfig. All that was fine.
Now with the 2.6.32 kernel I was forced to update ovt, and went straight to
the latest release 2011.05.27-420096.
The current ovt version has broken out some shared code to the top of the
modules tree that makes the task of integrating into the kernel tree more
difficult. Before I spend the time to recreate the wheel, I wanted to ask if
this has already done. Is there a tool to aid in this? Or perhaps a release
that provides kernel-ready module source?
Failing any good input, I will write a script that takes the ovt src tree,
and produces self-contained module sub-dirs that each duplicate all shared
code. The makefiles in the kernel tree are vastly different than the
standalone build, so I'll just provide replacements rather than patches for
makefiles. This small amount of space is not a concern, and will make
integrating each module an independent and easy task.
I welcome any input on the task.
Cheerio.
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