'On 5/26/2018 12:51 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
Sat, May 26, 2018 at 09:22:18AM CEST, sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 5/25/2018 4:28 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2018 16:11:47 -0700
"Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5/25/2018 3:34 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2018 09:55:14 -0700
Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ config HYPERV_NET
tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V virtual network driver"
depends on HYPERV
select UCS2_STRING
+ select FAILOVER
When I take a working kernel config, add the patches then do
make oldconfig
It is not autoselecting FAILOVER, it prompts me for it. This means
if user says no then a non-working netvsc device is made.
I see
Generic failover module (FAILOVER) [M/y/?] (NEW)
So the user is given an option to either build as a Module or part of the
kernel. 'n' is not an option.
With most libraries there is no prompt at all.
Not sure what you meant by this.
Without any patches applied, i had a .config file with HYPERV_NET configured
as a module.
Then after applying the first 2 patches in this series, i did a
make oldconfig
and i see the above prompt.
Are you saying that on some distros, 'make oldconfig creates a .config
file without any prompt and FAILOVER is not getting selected even when HYPERV_NET
is enabled?
Well the thing is that for a user, it makes no sense to select
"FAILOVER" by hand. It is a lib, so it should be only select it by a
user. It has no sense to have it turned on by hand - no lib user.
You can achieve that by simply removing "help" for the Kconfig
item. Same thing for "NET_FAILOVER".
I played around with the CONFIG options and i see that FAILOVER options do
get selected correctly when virtio-net/netvsc are enabled. Even if the FAILOVER
is turned off by the user before the hyperv-net/virtio-net patches are applied,
it gets selected automatically when hyperv-net/virtio-net patches are applied and
enabled in config.
If we don't want to allow the user to see these options, then i think we need to
remove them from Kconfig files. Just removing "help" doesn't seem to make a
difference.
Can we address any config issues (i don't see any at this point) as a bug-fix on top
of this series?
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