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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] KVM: add kvm_para_available to asm-generic/kvm_para.h
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:17:09 +0300
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:33:19PM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> On 4 June 2013 10:05, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:29:22PM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> >> According to include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h architectures should define
> >> kvm_para_available, so add an implementation to asm-generic/kvm_para.h
> >> which just returns false.
> >>
> > What is this fixing? The only user of kvm_para_available() that can
> > benefit from this is in sound/pci/intel8x0.c, but I do not see follow up
> > patch to use it there.
> 
> It was an unintentional config with mips + kvm + intel8x0 that hit it
> (I think I accidentally based my mips config off an x86_64 config).
> Kind of equivalent to a randconfig build failure I suppose.
> 
Yes, I see. I will queue the fix. Thanks!

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			Gleb.