* Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> wrote:
> On 10/03/2015 08:37 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >* Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> wrote:
> >
> >>While testing some other BPF issue, I realized that BPF_EVENTS is
> >>actually not accessible through menuconfig because of a missing
> >>description that needs to be attached to the bool. After the patch
> >>the entry shows up in menuconfig and can be enabled/disabled from
> >>there.
> >
> > Yeah, so the principle is the following: the main configuration option for
> > it
> > is BPF_SYSCALL. The BPF_EVENTS is an internal detail, always enabled when
> > possible, and we make it so that if the BPF syscall is enabled, we'll
> > enable
> > the perf integration if all the must-have components are in place:
>
> Makes sense, yes. I probably got confused due to the help text on the hidden
> Kconfig entry, but that can nevertheless serve as documentation purpose.
Feel free to send a patch that adds a sentence to that help text that explains
that this is an internal helper Kconfig entry that does not need to be
interactively configurable.
Thanks,
Ingo
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