Re: [PATCH] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for a kvm-bootable kernel

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ok, maybe I wasn't clear enough. My proposal was to actually add all (or
> maybe not *all* of them, but most) those selects above to the KVM_GUEST
> config option. Because, you very probably want to select all that stuff
> above anyway if you want to build a kvm guest kernel, no?
>
> IOW, something which says "Enable KVM guest support" should enable all
> the stuff needed for that.

"needed" yes,
"probably" no, as there's no way to disable them if they're selected
unconditionally.

Perhaps you can make the "probably" selects depend on !EXPERT to fix this?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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