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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2021-11-16 15:33:23 +0100
committerBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>2021-11-16 16:13:31 -0600
commit897919ad8b42eb8222553838ab82414a924694aa (patch)
treec417c92ae8332d465c8634e3b261a41450bf817d /drivers/xen
parentfa55b7dcdc43c1aa1ba12bca9d2dd4318c2a0dbf (diff)
downloadlinux-897919ad8b42eb8222553838ab82414a924694aa.tar.gz
xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig
This configuration option provides a misc device as an API to userspace.
Make this API usable without having to select the module as a transitive
dependency.

This also fixes an issue where localyesconfig would select
CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=m because it was not visible and defaulted to
building as module.

[boris: clarified help message per Jan's suggestion]

Based-on-patch-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211116143323.18866-1-jgross@suse.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/xen')
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/Kconfig8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
index a1b11c62da9e..33e941e40082 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
@@ -259,9 +259,15 @@ config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
 	  if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
 
 config XEN_PRIVCMD
-	tristate
+	tristate "Xen hypercall passthrough driver"
 	depends on XEN
 	default m
+	help
+	  The hypercall passthrough driver allows privileged user programs to
+	  perform Xen hypercalls. This driver is normally required for systems
+	  running as Dom0 to perform privileged operations, but in some
+	  disaggregated Xen setups this driver might be needed for other
+	  domains, too.
 
 config XEN_ACPI_PROCESSOR
 	tristate "Xen ACPI processor"