Re: [PATCH 6/8] KVM: PPC: Add support for multiple-TCE hcalls

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On 11.07.2013, at 14:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 13:15 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> And that's bad. Jeez, seriously. Don't argue this case. We enable new
>> features individually unless we're 100% sure we can keep everything
>> working. In this case an ENABLE_CAP doesn't hurt at all, because user
>> space still needs to handle the hypercalls if it wants them anyways.
>> But you get debugging for free for example.
> 
> An ENABLE_CAP is utterly pointless. More bloat. But you seem to like
> it :-)

I don't like bloat usually. But Alexey even had an #ifdef DEBUG in there to selectively disable in-kernel handling of multi-TCE. Not calling ENABLE_CAP would give him exactly that without ugly #ifdefs in the kernel.


Alex

> 
> Ben.
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