On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 11:44:03AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 12:41:13AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:53:53PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > Kent Overstreet <koverstr...@google.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > CONFIG_VIRTIO isn't exposed, everything else is supposed to select it
> > > > instead.
> > > 
> > > This is a slight mis-understanding.  It's supposed to be selected by
> > > the particular driver, probably virtio_pci in your case.
> > 
> > So are you saying virtio-blk depends on virtio-pci? If so, the kconfig
> > should have that.
> > 
> > As is, VIRTIO_BLK just has:
> >     depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO
> > 
> > which is flat out broken.
> 
> I don't think anything is broken.
> Can you show an example of a broken configuration?

Do you not understand the difference between depends an selects? Or did
you not read my original mail?

Flip off everything in drivers -> virtio

Now go to drivers -> block and try to turn on virtio-blk.

It's not listed!

Now go back to drivers -> virtio and turn on (randomly) balloon.

Go back to drivers -> block, and now you can turn on virtio-blk!

Do you see what's wrong with this picture?
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