[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Allow schedulers to be selectable through Kconfig
>>> On 07.01.16 at 16:18, <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/7/16 9:00 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: >> If we invert the sense then we could call it e.g. CONFIG_STANDARD_PLATFORM >> and default it to y, I expect it will be easier to discourage people from >> turning such an option off than to discourage them from turning something >> like CONFIG_EXPERT on. > > So I actually like this approach. Maybe tweak the name slightly to > CONFIG_SUPPORTED_XEN? It can force settings a certain way and can also > make menus invisible. But I'm hoping we can get Jan's buy in here before > we post any patchset. With Ian's proposed wording, and with it being either STANDARD_PLATFORM as Ian suggests or just SUPPORTED, I'd be fine I think. > So Jonathan and I have been messing with the hidden option behind a > non-menu option (e.g. environment variable). The only way we can get it > to work is to require the environment variable to be passed at > configuration time and at build time and I doubt you'd want the steps to > be "CONFIG_EXPERT=n make menuconfig && CONFIG_EXPERT=n make" to build > Xen. We'll play with this some more if that's desired but given Ian's > response I don't know if it is. If these overrides were only required for people wanting the non- default setting, I think it wouldn't be too bad. In fact one more thing to keep them from fiddling with the option. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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