[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#586772: Bug#586772: Bug#586772: Bug#586772: blktap2 Support

[Thomas Goirand]

On 03/09/2012 04:03 AM, Niccolò Belli wrote:
> Il 08/03/2012 18:47, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
>> There was a breakage of the blktap userspace<->  kernel ABI at one
>> point, which might stop 4.1 working with 2.6.32 era kernel wihch might
>> also explain this.
> 
> That may be the problem indeed, the only reason Squeeze didn't get
> blktap2 was a stupid license issue (stupid because it has been solved
> but no one cared reverting the "disable blktap2" commit in debian).
> 
> Unfortunately I don't think backporting blktap-dkms will be an easy task:
> 
> [... lots of errors ...]
> 
> Niccolò

Have you considered using the backported Linux 3.2 kernel? I don't see
why blktap-dkms would fail there.

Thomas