On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 04:43:32PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > For example to enable "PCI driver for virtio devices" I need to go to
> > Device Drivers -> Virtio drivers, while I think it would be great to
> > have everything virt. related in Virtualization section.
>
> Actually, we need something more generic than that: everything X-related
> should be automatically selected when setting CONFIG_X. And X can be any
> subset of configuration options which belong to one feature, be it KVM,
> distro-specific stuff, or CPU-vendor specific stuff, or whatever.
>
> I can imagine, for example, that when a user wants to have an
> AMD-specific config, it automatically selects CPU_SUP_AMD, X86_MCE_AMD
> (for MCE), MICROCODE_AMD (microcode support), AGP_AMD64, EDAC_AMD64 and
> a bunch of other AMD-specific features.
sure, no doubts, it would be great! (I must admit I never looked up into
kconfig parser code so i don't know if this could be achieved easily).
Cyrill
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