linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio: make VIRTIO a menuconfig to ease disabling it all

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Message-ID: <87h8sjpl2p.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:12:30 +1100
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@...il.com>
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: make VIRTIO a menuconfig to ease disabling it all

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@...il.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> thanks for the help, and sorry for the poor patch,
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> wrote:
>> This breaks all existing .configs *and* defconfigs that use VIRTIO.
>>
>> Please don't do that.
>>
>> If you make it default y then everything will continue to work.
>
> Do you want me to respin it with the added default ?

Yes please, either that or revert it.

cheers