Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig
To:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc:     linux@weissschuh.net, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
        xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
References: <20211116143323.18866-1-jgross@suse.com>
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From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Message-ID: <b155f66d-8259-ba87-62c4-ce8a0f7ed82f@suse.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:01:15 +0100
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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: linux@weissschuh.net, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
 Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig
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On 16.11.21 15:55, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 16.11.2021 15:33, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> This configuration option provides a misc device as an API to userspac=
e.
>> Make this API usable without having to select the module as a transiti=
ve
>> dependency.
>>
>> This also fixes an issue where localyesconfig would select
>> CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=3Dm because it was not visible and defaulted to
>> building as module.
>>
>> Based-on-patch-by: Thomas Wei=C3=9Fschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>=20
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>=20
>> --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
>> @@ -259,9 +259,14 @@ config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
>>   	  if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
>>  =20
>>   config XEN_PRIVCMD
>> -	tristate
>> +	tristate "Xen hypercall passthrough driver"
>>   	depends on XEN
>>   	default m
>> +	help
>> +	  The hypercall passthrough driver allows user land programs to perf=
orm
>=20
> Maybe worth adding "privileged" here? Albeit of course that's different=

> from the use of the word ...

I guess you mean "... allows privileged user programs ..." (another
variant might be "The privileged hypercall passthrough ...")?


Juergen

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