Re: [RFC PATCH 000/105] KVM: selftests: Overhaul APIs, purge VCPU_ID

[Andrew Jones]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 05:56:53PM +0000, Oliver Upton wrote:
> 
> I think it may make more sense to only define optional functions as
> weak and let the compiler do the screaming for the required ones. Only
> discovering that functions are missing at runtime could be annoying if
> you're cross-compiling and running on a separate host with a different
> architecture.
>

Ah, indeed, no reason to push the lack of required arch functions to
runtime detection, compile time is much better. And, in those cases,
the _arch_ naming will also provide a nice hint that one must implement
it in arch specific code.

Thanks,
drew