Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v1 0/8] xen: kconfig changes

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:01:43PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
>> <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:31:08AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On 02/17/2015 01:25 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>> >> >> <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> As it is per our agreed upon changes we can in theory enable a
>> >> >>> XEN_PVHVM system without XEN_PV or XEN_PVH. If this is indeed
>> >> >>> desirable this poses an issue at build time
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> And this also raises the question of whether or not we should make
>> >> >> XEN_PVHVM a user selectable option, right now it is a def_bool and is
>> >> >> therefore not human selectable. You can implicitly disable it by
>> >> >> disabling PCI for example though. If we want that to be exposed to the
>> >> >> user we can then enable some description of what that means, and the
>> >> >> user will then be able to read / select / enable XEN_PV., XEN_PVHVM,
>> >> >> XEN_PVH. Right now they'd only be able to select XEN_PV and/or
>> >> >> XEN_PVH, XEN_PVHVM is implicit.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > I think making XEN_PVHVM user selectable is okay.
>> >>
>> >> OK I'll enable this then.
>> >
>> > Please don't. We had bugs in the past because distros did not select
>> > it (they made it an module) and the PV drivers were not loaded.
>>
>> Oy vey.
>>
>> > There should be an history in the git tree behind the desire to make
>> > it non selectable.
>>
>> OK how about we enable the user selection only under CONFIG_EXPERT,
>> otherwise make it hidden.
>
> The CONFIG_EXPERT is gone from the kernel..

I see it as of next-20150218, is there a proposal to remove it?

 Luis

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