Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv5] 00/28] Kconfig conversion

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/20/15 1:09 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> The following series is a follow on to the Kconfig conversion patch series.
> There are still more components to convert however this is the bare minimal
> to get everything working and get the options out of the existing makefiles.
> 
> The CONFIG_HAS_ variables are there to match the behavior of the Linux
> CONFIG_HAVE_ variables. The purpose is to say that this hardware/profile/env
> supports this option while the CONFIG_ variable states that this option was
> requested on/off by user intervention.
> 
> The UARTs are now uniformly prefixed as CONFIG_UART_ and dropping most of the
> CONFIG_HAS_ labeling for them. This means they are now user selectable as
> requested by Julien Grall in the prior review. The question I've got is
> the old config was just for selecting defaults. Users could enable the OMAP
> UART for arm64 for example but I'm not sure if that's valid. Currently this
> patchset makes those UARTs not user selectable if they were not previously
> defaulted on. But I would like some feedback on this if possible.
> 
> Ultimately my goal is to allow for more parts of the hypervisor to be turned
> off at compile time and potentially make it easier to include more
> experimental features by others which can be turned off by default. Also to
> provide the one true location for all possible knobs in the source code.
> 
> The patch series can be grabbed at:
> https://github.com/cardoe/xen/tree/kconfig_v5

I forgot to note that I did not drop previous ACKs because those patches
remained untouched.

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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