From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5] 00/28] Kconfig conversion
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:58:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56548942.3050206@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1448046616-29922-1-git-send-email-cardoe@cardoe.com>
On 20/11/15 19:09, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> The following series is a follow on to the Kconfig conversion patch series.
> There are still more components to convert however this is the bare minimal
> to get everything working and get the options out of the existing makefiles.
>
> The CONFIG_HAS_ variables are there to match the behavior of the Linux
> CONFIG_HAVE_ variables. The purpose is to say that this hardware/profile/env
> supports this option while the CONFIG_ variable states that this option was
> requested on/off by user intervention.
>
> The UARTs are now uniformly prefixed as CONFIG_UART_ and dropping most of the
> CONFIG_HAS_ labeling for them. This means they are now user selectable as
> requested by Julien Grall in the prior review. The question I've got is
> the old config was just for selecting defaults. Users could enable the OMAP
> UART for arm64 for example but I'm not sure if that's valid. Currently this
> patchset makes those UARTs not user selectable if they were not previously
> defaulted on. But I would like some feedback on this if possible.
>
> Ultimately my goal is to allow for more parts of the hypervisor to be turned
> off at compile time and potentially make it easier to include more
> experimental features by others which can be turned off by default. Also to
> provide the one true location for all possible knobs in the source code.
>
> The patch series can be grabbed at:
> https://github.com/cardoe/xen/tree/kconfig_v5
Having had a play with this, everything appears to be in order.
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Thankyou very much for your work here.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-20 19:09 [PATCHv5] 00/28] Kconfig conversion Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 01/28] build: import Kbuild/Kconfig from Linux 4.2 Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 02/28] build: build Kconfig and config rules Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 03/28] build: use generated Kconfig options for Xen Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 04/28] build: convert HAS_PASSTHROUGH use to Kconfig Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 05/28] build: convert HAS_DEVICE_TREE " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 06/28] build: convert HAS_PCI " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 07/28] build: convert HAS_NS16550 " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 08/28] build: convert HAS_IOPORTS " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 09/28] build: convert HAS_ACPI " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 10/28] build: convert HAS_VIDEO " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:09 ` [PATCHv5] 11/28] build: convert HAS_VGA " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 12/28] build: convert HAS_CPUFREQ " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 13/28] build: convert HAS_GDBSX " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 14/28] build: convert HAS_PDX " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 15/28] build: convert HAS_KEXEC " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 16/28] build: convert HAS_ARM_HDLCD " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 17/28] build: convert HAS_CADENCE_UART " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 18/28] build: convert HAS_PL011 " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 19/28] build: convert HAS_EXYNOS4210 " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 20/28] build: convert HAS_OMAP " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 21/28] build: convert HAS_SCIF " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 22/28] build: convert HAS_EHCI " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 23/28] build: convert HAS_MEM_ACCESS " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 24/28] build: convert HAS_MEM_PAGING " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 25/28] build: convert HAS_MEM_SHARING " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 26/28] build: convert HAS_GICV3 " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 27/28] build: convert CONFIG_COMPAT " Doug Goldstein
2015-11-20 19:10 ` [PATCHv5] 28/28] build: convert kexec options to CONFIG_KEXEC Doug Goldstein
2015-11-21 15:51 ` [PATCHv5] 00/28] Kconfig conversion Doug Goldstein
2015-11-24 15:58 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2015-11-24 17:03 ` Doug Goldstein
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