From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Samudrala, Sridhar" Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v12 2/5] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the failover framework Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 16:11:47 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1527180917-39737-1-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <1527180917-39737-3-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <20180525153456.28b44c7c@xeon-e3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, jiri@resnulli.us, mst@redhat.com, kubakici@wp.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, loseweigh@gmail.com, anjali.singhai@intel.com, aaron.f.brown@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180525153456.28b44c7c@xeon-e3> Content-Language: en-US List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 5/25/2018 3:34 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2018 09:55:14 -0700 > Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > >> --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig >> +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig >> @@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ config HYPERV_NET >> tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V virtual network driver" >> depends on HYPERV >> select UCS2_STRING >> + select FAILOVER > When I take a working kernel config, add the patches then do > make oldconfig > > It is not autoselecting FAILOVER, it prompts me for it. This means > if user says no then a non-working netvsc device is made. I see Generic failover module (FAILOVER) [M/y/?] (NEW) So the user is given an option to either build as a Module or part of the kernel. 'n' is not an option.