Re: [PATCH -v2 2/2] x86: Make Linux guest support optional

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jan 25 2013 - 13:32:06 EST


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:29:25AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Can't we make the balloon driver depend on CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST?

We certainly can do that, AFAICT.

> We do not _need_ more and have no plans to introduce new ones AFAIK,
> but I think that comparing an address of a structure instead of string
> comparison is much more elegant and it is safer from typos.

Ok, if you prefer. We can definitely make all .o's which depend on
x86_hyper also depend on CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST - this solves the whole
deal trivially.

I'll respin the patches.

Thanks.

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Boris.

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