Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Update to use a .config file

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:08:46AM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> On 06/14/2016 04:35 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:02:44PM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> >>Remove the old --xen-debug option, and instead, require the user to pass
> >>a .config file matching the original build's .config.
> >
> >Hm, that throws this off a bit for the older hypervisors (to which
> >I had backported livepatch). Perhaps we could add some logic to
> >check if common/Kconfig exist?
> 
> At this point rather than adding extra logic to support different
> still-experimental versions, I'd rather just have a different branch. Maybe
> have a branch per Xen release?
> 
> >
> >And I also wonder if the --xen-debug option removal should be a seperate
> >patch?
> >
> 
> Well the two are related -- the motivation to use the .config is because the
> debug flag is now controlled by the .config rather than the command-line
> argument.

But not in the 4.7 that is going out - that 'debug=y' is non-Kconfig?
> 
> -- 
> Ross Lagerwall

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