Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967656Ab3DRJzf (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:55:35 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f169.google.com ([209.85.223.169]:57040 "EHLO mail-ie0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966743Ab3DRJzd (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:55:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130418094629.GC21719@pd.tnic> References: <20130412181956.GA13099@pd.tnic> <516A7760.7030907@kernel.org> <20130414110320.GB20547@pd.tnic> <20130416161852.GH5332@pd.tnic> <20130417232507.GC31059@amt.cnet> <20130418094629.GC21719@pd.tnic> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:55:33 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: NsNo-bBC7F9wJpDwDbSUr7xVTyA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for a kvm-bootable kernel From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Pekka Enberg , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Sasha Levin , Fengguang Wu , lkml , x86-ml , kvm@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1224 Lines: 30 On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Borislav Petkov 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/