Re: [PATCH 12/12] vfio/pci: Introduce vfio_pci_core.ko

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On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 08:09:41PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 03:54:40PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> 
> > I'm still not happy with how this is likely to break users and even
> > downstreams when upgrading to a Kconfig with this change.
> 
> I've never heard of Kconfig as stable ABI. Christoph/Arnd, have you
> heard of any cases where we want to keep it stable?

Of course not, otherwise we won't be able to do ANY cleanup in the kernel.

> 
> As far as I know we should change kconfig to keep it working properly,
> eg by having correct menu structure and sane kconfig names.

Everyone who upgrades through source code and needs rebuild kernel
should be proficient enough to enable/disable kernel config.

Thanks



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