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Re: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig
- To: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:05:07 +0100
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- Cc: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Delivery-date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:05:30 +0000
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On 16.11.2021 16:01, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 16.11.21 15:55, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 16.11.2021 15:33, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> This configuration option provides a misc device as an API to userspace.
>>> Make this API usable without having to select the module as a transitive
>>> dependency.
>>>
>>> This also fixes an issue where localyesconfig would select
>>> CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=m because it was not visible and defaulted to
>>> building as module.
>>>
>>> Based-on-patch-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
>>> @@ -259,9 +259,14 @@ config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
>>> if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
>>>
>>> config XEN_PRIVCMD
>>> - tristate
>>> + tristate "Xen hypercall passthrough driver"
>>> depends on XEN
>>> default m
>>> + help
>>> + The hypercall passthrough driver allows user land programs to perform
>>
>> Maybe worth adding "privileged" here? Albeit of course that's different
>> from the use of the word ...
>
> I guess you mean "... allows privileged user programs ..." (another
> variant might be "The privileged hypercall passthrough ...")?
The former, yes.
Jan
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