linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: Fix kconfig option

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Message-ID: <20120906084403.GD17656@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2012 11:44:03 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: Fix kconfig option

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 12:41:13AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:53:53PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com> writes:
> > 
> > > CONFIG_VIRTIO isn't exposed, everything else is supposed to select it
> > > instead.
> > 
> > This is a slight mis-understanding.  It's supposed to be selected by
> > the particular driver, probably virtio_pci in your case.
> 
> So are you saying virtio-blk depends on virtio-pci? If so, the kconfig
> should have that.
> 
> As is, VIRTIO_BLK just has:
> 	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO
> 
> which is flat out broken.

I don't think anything is broken.
Can you show an example of a broken configuration?

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