On Tue, 21 Dec 2021, Brad Spencer wrote:
Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> writes:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 07:44:59AM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
I've noticed that device drivers listed in arch/xen/conf/files.xen
(or, at least, most of those devices) seem to be included in kernel
even if not using XEN. Shouldn't all those devices be conditional?
# sysctl -a | grep driver | tr ',' '\n' | grep 'x[be]*'
...
[141 -1 xenevt]
[142 142 xbd]
[143 -1 xencons]
I think this lists all the known major numbers for the $MACHINE, I don't think
it means that the driver is actually loaded.
... and a PVHVM guest can use the GENERIC kernel, but will want the Xen
devices too.
Thanks to all for the info.
Manuel is correct - I actually checked the build object directory and
there are no *.o files related to the xen devices.
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