Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:13:20 -0500 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: Can't build in the virtio console driver on x86_64 when the other virtio drivers are modular |
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:38:15 +0530 Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> wrote:
> On (Thu) 24 Feb 2011 [11:28:19], Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > The virtio configuration options are inconsistent. According to this, > > every options that needs virtio will select it: > > > > # Virtio always gets selected by whoever wants it. > > config VIRTIO > > tristate > > > > Note that it's not user-selectable, so any config file that tries to > > set it will be ignored when kconfig loads those options. And yet we > > have a whole set of options that depend on VIRTIO, like VIRTIO_CONSOLE > > for example. This makes it impossible to have VIRTIO_PCI modular and > > VIRTIO_CONSOLE built-in on x86_64, because: > > Any reason to have VIRTIO_PCI modular instead of built in (on x86-64, > virtio-console won't work without virtio-pci anyway)? >
None that I know of offhand, other than not building in things unless absolutely necessary. There's no dependency of any kind there, so it's even possible to build a kernel with VIRTIO_CONSOLE enabled and VIRTIO_PCI completely disabled.
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