Re: [PATCH v2] xen: Make XEN_BACKEND selectable by DomU

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Tue Sep 25 2018 - 17:10:49 EST


On 9/25/18 7:36 AM, Jason Andryuk wrote:
> XEN_BACKEND doesn't actually depend on XEN_DOM0. DomUs can serve
> backends to other DomUs. One example is a service VM providing network
> backends.
>
> The original Kconfig defaulted Dom0 to y and it could be disabled. DomU
> could not select the option. With the new Kconfig, we default y for
> Dom0 and n for DomU. Either can then toggle the selection.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to for-linus-19d