From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for a kvm-bootable kernel
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:55:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVmeMfXKuO9FjHWjS80vUWqc-y0NA8YJruwtkz7QeQosA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130418094629.GC21719@pd.tnic>
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> ok, maybe I wasn't clear enough. My proposal was to actually add all (or
> maybe not *all* of them, but most) those selects above to the KVM_GUEST
> config option. Because, you very probably want to select all that stuff
> above anyway if you want to build a kvm guest kernel, no?
>
> IOW, something which says "Enable KVM guest support" should enable all
> the stuff needed for that.
"needed" yes,
"probably" no, as there's no way to disable them if they're selected
unconditionally.
Perhaps you can make the "probably" selects depend on !EXPERT to fix this?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-18 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-12 18:19 [PATCH] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for a kvm-bootable kernel Borislav Petkov
2013-04-12 20:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2013-04-14 9:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-04-14 11:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-16 16:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-17 0:38 ` Sasha Levin
2013-04-17 7:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-17 23:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-04-18 9:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-18 9:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2013-04-18 10:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-18 13:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-04-19 10:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-26 0:05 ` [PATCH -v2] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for kvm guest kernel Borislav Petkov
2013-04-26 6:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-26 9:51 ` [PATCH -v2.1] " Borislav Petkov
2013-04-30 16:49 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for building working KVM guest kernels tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 19:53 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 20:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 21:00 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 21:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 21:30 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 21:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 22:09 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 22:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 22:37 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 23:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 23:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-01 23:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 23:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-01 23:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-02 7:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-02 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-02 19:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-02 19:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 23:16 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 23:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-02 0:07 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-02 7:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-02 7:16 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 13:19 ` [PATCH -v2.1] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for kvm guest kernel Marcelo Tosatti
2013-05-01 23:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-02 17:23 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for building working KVM guest kernels tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2013-05-02 18:06 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-02 18:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-02 18:19 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-02 19:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-02 20:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-03 14:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-03 14:54 ` Randy Dunlap
2013-05-03 15:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-03 15:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-03 15:10 ` Michal Marek
2013-05-03 15:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-03 16:53 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-03 17:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-03 17:19 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-03 19:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-03 23:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-22 14:46 ` [PATCH -v2] x86: Add a kvm config file Borislav Petkov
2013-05-22 17:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-05-28 13:39 ` [tip:x86/platform] x86, platform, kvm, kconfig: Turn existing .config's into KVM-capable configs tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 8:04 ` [PATCH] x86/platform: Add kvmconfig to the phony targets Borislav Petkov
2013-06-23 11:02 ` [tip:x86/platform] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
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