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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:39:10 -0700
From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, platform, kconfig: move kvmconfig functionality
 to a helper
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 03:33:45PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > The new mergeconfig helper makes it easier to add other partial
> > configurations similar to kvmconfig.
> > 
> > Based on a patch by Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>.
> > Originally-Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
> > 
> > Modified to make the helper name more general than just virtualization,
> > and factor out more of the common file path.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> 
> For the original patch from Luis:
> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> 
> For this patch:
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> 
> Thanks for generalizing this part of the Makefile, after it's merged it 
> will make Luis's set reduce down to a single change.

Thank you as well for suggesting this refactoring; I should have thought
to do the same rather than copying and pasting the contents of
kvmconfig.

Should this go in via Andrew's -mm tree, or via tip for x86?

- Josh Triplett