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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig
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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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