From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:35:46 -0700 Message-ID: <4E1391C2.2090904@zytor.com> References: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-arm-kernel-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Ohad Ben-Cohen Cc: Carsten Otte , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Heiko Carstens , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Grant Likely , Paul Mackerras , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Alexander Graf , Christian Borntraeger , Ingo Molnar , Avi Kivity , Russell King , Xiantao Zhang , Fenghua Yu , Arnd Bergmann , Rusty Russell , Chris Metcalf , John Stultz , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On 07/05/2011 07:06 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization, > and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch > Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected. > > Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications, > we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization > scope too. > Seems reasonable to me. -hpa