From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755296Ab3A0B2j (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:28:39 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56069 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754942Ab3A0B2g (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:28:36 -0500 Message-ID: <51048250.6060108@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:26:40 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Dmitry Torokhov , Ingo Molnar , X86 ML , Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, jasowang@redhat.com, Thomas Gleixner , JBeulich@suse.com, "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Haiyang Zhang Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 2/2] x86: Make Linux guest support optional References: <20130125100655.GC23404@pd.tnic> <1359136777-4512-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> <20130125180730.GA29810@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20130125182335.GA1380@pd.tnic> <20130125182925.GB29810@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20130125183507.GA4973@pd.tnic> <20130125184356.GB4973@pd.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20130125184356.GB4973@pd.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/25/2013 10:43 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 07:35:07PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> Ok, if you prefer. We can definitely make all .o's which depend on >> x86_hyper also depend on CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST - this solves the >> whole deal trivially. >> >> I'll respin the patches. > > ... provided, of course, nothing out-of-tree is using x86_hyper. Can we > assume that? > Out-of-tree code is responsible for keeping up, not the other way around. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.