Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/4] build: Download and build extnernal blktap2.5 repo

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:46:08PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> Download and build XenServer's blktap as an external tree, similar to
> qemu-xen.
> 
> As of this patch we just download and build it, but don't install or
> use it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> FIXME: Directly use the XenServer github repo for now, while we're
> discussing things.  If we decide to take this series, we'll have to
> clone the tree on xenbits and remove the FIXME line.
> 

IMHO we need to support --with-system-blktap= in configure in case
distro wants to package blktap separately. Not sure if in practice this
makes sense since AIUI blktap is only used by Xen.

Wei.

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