Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.7-rc6

From	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.7-rc6
Date	2016-07-04 13:10 +0200
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On 04/07/2016 11:17, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> If we want to avoid this one, we could make the inclusion of
> drivers/vhost/Kconfig from arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig depend on CONFIG_AEABI,
> or perhaps go further force-enable CONFIG_AEABI for ARMv6k and higher
> (cmpxchg64() is broken on OABI too), and only include vhost if KVM
> is enabled (KVM in turn requires ARMv7).

I don't think it is correct to include vhost only if KVM is enabled.
vhost is an implementation of virtio; it is usually used together with
KVM but there's no dependency between the two.

Paolo

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Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.7-rc6 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-07-04 10:30 +0200
  Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.7-rc6 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-07-04 11:20 +0200
    Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.7-rc6 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-04 13:10 +0200

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