On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 06:09:50PM -0700, Mukesh Rathor wrote: > At present, drivers/Makefile will subst =m to =y for CONFIG_HYPERV > for hv subdir. Also, drivers/hv/Makefile replaces =m to =y to build in > hv_common.c that is needed for the drivers. Moreover, vmbus driver is > built if CONFIG_HYPER is set, either loadable or builtin. > > This is not a good approach. CONFIG_HYPERV is really an umbrella > config that encompasses builtin code and various other things and not > a dedicated config option for VMBus. VMBus should really have a config > option just like CONFIG_HYPERV_BALLOON etc. This small series introduces > CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS to build VMBus driver and make that distinction > explicit. With that CONFIG_HYPERV could be changed to bool. > > For now, hv_common.c is left as is to reduce conflicts for upcoming > patches, but once merges are mostly done, that and some others should > be moved to virt/hyperv directory. > > V1: > o Change subject from hyper-v to "Drivers: hv:" > o Rewrite commit messages paying attention to VMBus and not vmbus > o Change some wordings in Kconfig > o Make new VMBUS config option default to HYPERV option for a smoother > transition > > Mukesh Rathor (2): > Driver: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option > Drivers: hv: Make CONFIG_HYPERV bool >
Applied. Thanks.
