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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/2] kvm tools: PPC64 basic support
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:35:50 +1100
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On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 08:35 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> In that case, KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD is simply not set, so we're better off
> checking the cap dynamically instead of having it defined statically
> in the makefile.
> 
> I'll send a short patch that does that.

Indeed, and in general, even if it was set, a failure of the ioctl could
be handled gracefully by switching to not using it from the generic code
without an arch override.

Cheers,
Ben.