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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/14] KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (v4)
    Arjan van de Ven wrote:
    >> The problem with that is that the test comes too late: after we've
    >> configured. Andrew wants to keep allmodconfig working, and for that we
    >> need to deselect CONFIG_KVM before compilation starts.
    >>
    >
    > not really. You can also select to just not compile kvm at all *from the
    > Makefile*
    >

    Yes. And then a real user (not an allmodconfig user) selects CONFIG_KVM
    and wonders where it went.

    For users, we want it to fail fatally. For allmodconfig, we want it to
    succeed but don't care about the output.


    >> gcc.*protector.sh only affects the Makefile, not the configuration, AFAICT.
    >>
    >
    > but it is the Makefile that goes into the kvm directory and compiles
    > stuff!
    >
    > yes it's ugly and not so elegant, but it's effective and you can warn
    > bigtime via nasty messages if you want ;)
    >

    We already have an ugly solution:

    #define VMLAUNCH ".byte 0x0f, foo, bar"

    etc. We were looking for an elegant one.

    --
    error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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