Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] Drivers: hv: Make CONFIG_HYPERV bool

On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 06:09:52PM -0700, Mukesh Rathor wrote:

With CONFIG_HYPERV and CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS separated, change CONFIG_HYPERV
to bool from tristate. CONFIG_HYPERV now becomes the core Hyper-V
hypervisor support, such as hypercalls, clocks/timers, Confidential
Computing setup, PCI passthru, etc. that doesn't involve VMBus or VMBus
devices.

But why are you making it so that this can not be a module anymore?  You
are now forcing ALL Linux distro users to always have this code in their
system, despite not ever using the feature.  That feels like a waste to
me.

What is preventing this from staying as a module?  Why must you always
have this code loaded at all times for everyone?

thanks,

greg k-h