Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 21/34] vmbus: build configuration

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/02/2018 20:30, Roman Kagan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 12:04:01PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 06/02/2018 21:30, Roman Kagan wrote:
>>> From: Evgeny Yakovlev <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> Add option to configure and makefiles to enable building vmbus support
>>> (default to "on" on Linux and "off" otherwise).
>>
>> Maybe default to on if KVM is supported?  Could it just be
>>
>> CONFIG_VMBUS=$(CONFIG_KVM)
>>
>> in default-configs/ instead of having a configure option?
> 
> Then there won't be an obvious way to turn it off, will there be?

Distros can and do patch default-configs/.  It's not very obvious, I
agree, but then it's what we suggest to do in order to turn off all
those old, hardly maintained ISA devices.  So to some extent it's a
documentation problem.

Paolo