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SubjectRe: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig
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On 16.11.2021 16:01, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 16.11.21 15:55, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 16.11.2021 15:33, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> This configuration option provides a misc device as an API to userspace.
>>> Make this API usable without having to select the module as a transitive
>>> dependency.
>>>
>>> This also fixes an issue where localyesconfig would select
>>> CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=m because it was not visible and defaulted to
>>> building as module.
>>>
>>> Based-on-patch-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
>>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>>
>>> --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
>>> @@ -259,9 +259,14 @@ config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
>>> if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
>>>
>>> config XEN_PRIVCMD
>>> - tristate
>>> + tristate "Xen hypercall passthrough driver"
>>> depends on XEN
>>> default m
>>> + help
>>> + The hypercall passthrough driver allows user land programs to perform
>>
>> Maybe worth adding "privileged" here? Albeit of course that's different
>> from the use of the word ...
>
> I guess you mean "... allows privileged user programs ..." (another
> variant might be "The privileged hypercall passthrough ...")?

The former, yes.

Jan

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