Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig | From | Juergen Gross <> | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:01:15 +0100 |
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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 ...")?
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