Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:05:07 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig | From | Jan Beulich <> |
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On 16.11.2021 16:01, Juergen Gross wrote: > 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 ...")?
The former, yes.
Jan
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