Re: [RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too

To:	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Subject:	Re: [RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:35:46 -0700
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On 07/05/2011 07:06 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization,
> and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch
> Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected.
> 
> Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications,
> we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization
> scope too.
> 

Seems reasonable to me.

        -hpa

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