* [PATCH] xen/pvcalls: backend can be a module
@ 2021-09-07 12:17 Jan Beulich
2021-09-08 0:49 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-14 8:04 ` Juergen Gross
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jan Beulich @ 2021-09-07 12:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Juergen Gross, Boris Ostrovsky; +Cc: Stefano Stabellini, lkml, xen-devel
It's not clear to me why only the frontend has been tristate. Switch the
backend to be, too.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
--- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ config XEN_PVCALLS_FRONTEND
implements them.
config XEN_PVCALLS_BACKEND
- bool "XEN PV Calls backend driver"
+ tristate "XEN PV Calls backend driver"
depends on INET && XEN && XEN_BACKEND
help
Experimental backend for the Xen PV Calls protocol
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* Re: [PATCH] xen/pvcalls: backend can be a module
2021-09-07 12:17 [PATCH] xen/pvcalls: backend can be a module Jan Beulich
@ 2021-09-08 0:49 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-14 8:04 ` Juergen Gross
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefano Stabellini @ 2021-09-08 0:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Beulich
Cc: Juergen Gross, Boris Ostrovsky, Stefano Stabellini, lkml, xen-devel
On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, Jan Beulich wrote:
> It's not clear to me why only the frontend has been tristate. Switch the
> backend to be, too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Actually although the frontend is a tristate, it cannot really work as a
module. Specifically see pvcalls_stream_ops in the enabling patch (still
not upstream):
https://github.com/lf-edge/runx/blob/master/kernel/patches/0001-patch-pvcalls_enable.patch
So I had to change tristate to bool for XEN_PVCALLS_FRONTEND in our
internal kernel tree.
That said, the PVCalls backend could very well be a module and
technically I don't see any reasons why not. So:
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
> @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ config XEN_PVCALLS_FRONTEND
> implements them.
>
> config XEN_PVCALLS_BACKEND
> - bool "XEN PV Calls backend driver"
> + tristate "XEN PV Calls backend driver"
> depends on INET && XEN && XEN_BACKEND
> help
> Experimental backend for the Xen PV Calls protocol
>
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* Re: [PATCH] xen/pvcalls: backend can be a module
2021-09-07 12:17 [PATCH] xen/pvcalls: backend can be a module Jan Beulich
2021-09-08 0:49 ` Stefano Stabellini
@ 2021-09-14 8:04 ` Juergen Gross
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Juergen Gross @ 2021-09-14 8:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Beulich, Boris Ostrovsky; +Cc: Stefano Stabellini, lkml, xen-devel
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On 07.09.21 14:17, Jan Beulich wrote:
> It's not clear to me why only the frontend has been tristate. Switch the
> backend to be, too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Pushed to xen/tip.git for-linus-5.15
Juergen
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