Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:28:44 -0500 | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] PCI: only build xen-pcifront in PV-enabled environments |
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s/only/Only/ in subject
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 12:48:03PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > The driver's module init function, pcifront_init(), invokes > xen_pv_domain() first thing. That construct produces constant "false" > when !CONFIG_XEN_PV. Hence there's no point building the driver in > non-PV configurations.
Thanks for these bread crumbs. xen_domain_type is set to XEN_PV_DOMAIN only by xen_start_kernel() in enlighten_pv.c, which is only built when CONFIG_XEN_PV=y, so even I can verify this :)
> Drop the (now implicit and generally wrong) X86 dependency: At present, > XEN_PV con only be set when X86 is also enabled. In general an > architecture supporting Xen PV (and PCI) would want to have this driver > built.
s/con only/can only/
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> > Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> --- > v2: Title and description redone. > > --- a/drivers/pci/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/pci/Kconfig > @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ config PCI_PF_STUB > > config XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND > tristate "Xen PCI Frontend" > - depends on X86 && XEN > + depends on XEN_PV > select PCI_XEN > select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND > default y >
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