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Date:   Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:52:35 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To:     Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
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        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: do not enable VHOST_MENU by default
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:44:38AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> We try to keep the defconfig untouched after decoupling CONFIG_VHOST
> out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION in commit 20c384f1ea1a
> ("vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig") by enabling VHOST_MENU by
> default. Then the defconfigs can keep enabling CONFIG_VHOST_NET
> without the caring of CONFIG_VHOST.
> 
> But this will leave a "CONFIG_VHOST_MENU=y" in all defconfigs and even
> for the ones that doesn't want vhost. So it actually shifts the
> burdens to the maintainers of all other to add "CONFIG_VHOST_MENU is
> not set". So this patch tries to enable CONFIG_VHOST explicitly in
> defconfigs that enables CONFIG_VHOST_NET and CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/mips/configs/malta_kvm_defconfig  |  1 +

Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>

Thomas.

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