Re: kvm warning

[Avi Kivity]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:48:07 +0300
> Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >     
> > > * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > ia64 allmodconfig says
> > > >
> > > > drivers/kvm/Kconfig:14:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'KVM' 
> > > > refers to undefined symbol 'PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS'
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > hm, why doesnt ia64 pick up kernel/Kconfig.preempt, like all the other 
> > > arches? Due to that ia64 also misses out on voluntary preempt and on 
> > > preempt-bkl.
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > Even more hm, how does ia64 manage to enable kvm?  It 'depends on X86' 
> > at this moment.
> >
> >     
>
> beats me.  CONFIG_KVM doesn't get set.  But it seems that kconfig wants
> to do error-checking on that item anyway.
>
>
>   

I could do a 'select PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS if X86' but it seems silly.  I'd 
call it a Kconfig bug.



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