From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: ppc: fix Kconfig constraints Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:48:06 +0200 Message-ID: <49170636.2030003@redhat.com> References: <7ef9d93760395985e11f.1226085033@localhost.localdomain> <1226085313.9309.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4916B5CE.1080605@redhat.com> <20081109154314.GA21374@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Hollis Blanchard , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Sam Ravnborg Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:60864 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755168AbYKIPsS (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:48:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081109154314.GA21374@uranus.ravnborg.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> I have a vague memory that 'select' will not propagate (what's the word? >> transitive?) - -that is, the 'select KVM' will enable KVM but will not >> cause ANON_INODES and PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS to be set. >> > I'm glad to say your memory in this case is wrong. > > Me, too. > Select works recursively so the usage above is OK. > > If KVM had a dependency such as EXPERIMENTAL then > select would enable KVM no matter the value of EXPERIMENTAL. > Right, I misremembered this property. Thanks for the clarification. Hollis, I'll apply your patch. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function