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Re: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig



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 userspace.
Make this API usable without having to select the module as a transitive
dependency.

This also fixes an issue where localyesconfig would select
CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=m because it was not visible and defaulted to
building as module.

Based-on-patch-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
@@ -259,9 +259,14 @@ config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
          if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
config XEN_PRIVCMD
-       tristate
+       tristate "Xen hypercall passthrough driver"
        depends on XEN
        default m
+       help
+         The hypercall passthrough driver allows user land programs to perform

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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