Re: [PATCH] virtio: don't prompt CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI_MODERN

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 9:45 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We used to prompt CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI_MODERN to user which may bring a
> lot of confusion. E.g it may break various default configs which want
> virtio devices.
>
> So this patch fixes this by hide the prompot and document the
> dependency.
>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 86b87c9d858b6 ("virtio-pci: introduce modern device module")
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Note that this effectively makes VIRTIO_PCI_MODERN and VIRTIO_PCI
synonyms, so git goes back to not being able to have VIRTIO_PCI_MODERN
by itself, but it seems that this is ok because the legacy part was already
split out.

        Arnd