linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, platform, kconfig: move kvmconfig functionality to a helper

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Message-ID: <20140806223909.GA14575@jtriplet-mobl1>
Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:39:10 -0700
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, platform, kconfig: move kvmconfig functionality
 to a helper

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 03:33:45PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > The new mergeconfig helper makes it easier to add other partial
> > configurations similar to kvmconfig.
> > 
> > Based on a patch by Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com>.
> > Originally-Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com>
> > 
> > Modified to make the helper name more general than just virtualization,
> > and factor out more of the common file path.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
> 
> For the original patch from Luis:
> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> 
> For this patch:
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> 
> Thanks for generalizing this part of the Makefile, after it's merged it 
> will make Luis's set reduce down to a single change.

Thank you as well for suggesting this refactoring; I should have thought
to do the same rather than copying and pasting the contents of
kvmconfig.

Should this go in via Andrew's -mm tree, or via tip for x86?

- Josh Triplett
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