Re: [PATCH 2/4]Diskdump Update

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:01:43PM +0900, Takao Indoh wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:39:06 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> >> >please make it not a module of it's own but part of the
> >> >scsi code, 
> >> 
> >> Do you mean scsi_dump module should be merged with sd_mod.o or scsi_mod.o?
> >
> >scsi_mod.o.
> 
> It is difficult because disk_dump and scsi_dump try to check checksum of
> itself using check_crc_module so as to confirm whether module is
> compromised or not.


> Therefore, scsi_dump need to be always compiled as independent module.
> If scsi_dump is merged with scsi_mod, scsi_mod is not able to be
> compiled statically.

So check if it's a module and otherwise not.
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