linux-kernel - [patch] paravirt: let users decide whether they want VMI

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Message-ID: <20070305121540.GA15710@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:15:40 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: [patch] paravirt: let users decide whether they want VMI

Subject: [patch] paravirt: let users decide whether they want VMI
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

do not use default=y for CONFIG_VMI (we do not do that for any driver or 
special-hardware feature): the overwhelming majority of Linux users does 
not need it, and interested users and distributions can enable it 
as-needed.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 arch/i386/Kconfig |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -225,7 +225,6 @@ config PARAVIRT
 config VMI
 	bool "VMI Paravirt-ops support"
 	depends on PARAVIRT
-	default y
 	help
 	  VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
 	  (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not
-
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