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SubjectRe: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig
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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@weissschuh.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>
>> --- 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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