From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>,
bhelgaas@google.com, corbet@lwn.net, diana.craciun@oss.nxp.com,
kwankhede@nvidia.com, eric.auger@redhat.com,
masahiroy@kernel.org, michal.lkml@markovi.net,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, mgurtovoy@nvidia.com,
maorg@nvidia.com, leonro@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] vfio/pci: Introduce vfio_pci_core.ko
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:03:26 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210728120326.GQ1721383@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210728054306.GA3421@lst.de>
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 07:43:06AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Which might reasonably be from an old kernel. 'make oldconfig' prompts:
> >
> > VFIO Non-Privileged userspace driver framework (VFIO) [Y/n/m/?] y
> > VFIO No-IOMMU support (VFIO_NOIOMMU) [Y/n/?] y
> > VFIO support for PCI devices (VFIO_PCI_CORE) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
> >
> > Which is completely fine, IMHO.
>
> Why do we need to have VFIO_PCI_CORE as a user visible option?
> I'd just select it.
I'm not great with kconfig, but AFAIK:
- It controls building a module so it needs to be a tristate
- tristates need to be exposed in the menu structure
- As it builds a module it also has depends on other things
- Select should not be used to target tristates
- Select should not be used to target options in the menu tree
- Select should not be used to target options that have depends
Which leaves us with this arrangement unless we delete the
vfio_pci_core.ko module - which seems like a bad direction just for
kconfig backwards compatibility.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-28 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-21 16:15 [PATCH 00/12] Introduce vfio_pci_core subsystem Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:15 ` [PATCH 01/12] vfio/pci: Rename vfio_pci.c to vfio_pci_core.c Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:15 ` [PATCH 02/12] vfio/pci: Rename vfio_pci_private.h to vfio_pci_core.h Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 03/12] vfio/pci: Rename vfio_pci_device to vfio_pci_core_device Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 04/12] vfio/pci: Rename ops functions to fit core namings Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 05/12] vfio/pci: Include vfio header in vfio_pci_core.h Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 06/12] vfio/pci: Split the pci_driver code out of vfio_pci_core.c Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 07/12] vfio/pci: Move igd initialization to vfio_pci.c Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 08/12] vfio/pci: Move module parameters " Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 09/12] PCI: Add a PCI_ID_F_VFIO_DRIVER_OVERRIDE flag to struct pci_device_id Yishai Hadas
2021-07-27 16:34 ` Alex Williamson
2021-07-27 17:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-07-27 23:02 ` Alex Williamson
2021-07-27 23:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-04 20:34 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-08-05 16:47 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-06 0:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-11 12:22 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-11 19:07 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-08-12 13:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-12 15:57 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-08-12 19:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-12 20:26 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-08-12 23:21 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-13 17:44 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-08-14 23:27 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-16 17:21 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-08-17 13:01 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-17 14:13 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-08-17 14:44 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-12 15:42 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-07-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 10/12] vfio: Use select for eventfd Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 11/12] vfio: Use kconfig if XX/endif blocks instead of repeating 'depends on' Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 12/12] vfio/pci: Introduce vfio_pci_core.ko Yishai Hadas
2021-07-21 17:39 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-07-22 9:06 ` Yishai Hadas
2021-07-22 9:22 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-07-23 14:13 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-07-25 10:45 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-07-27 21:54 ` Alex Williamson
2021-07-27 23:09 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-07-28 4:56 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-07-28 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-28 7:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-28 7:17 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-07-28 12:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2021-07-28 12:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-28 12:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-28 12:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-07-28 12:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-28 13:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-07-28 13:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-28 17:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-04 13:41 ` [PATCH 00/12] Introduce vfio_pci_core subsystem Yishai Hadas
2021-08-04 15:27 ` Alex Williamson
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