# Re: \[PATCH net-next v12 2/5\] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the failover framework

- From: Samudrala, Sridhar \<sridhar.samudrala@intel.com\>
- Date: 2018-05-26 19:22:28 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2018/05/11097441
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2018/05/11097172/t.md

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'On 5/26/2018 12:51 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sat, May 26, 2018 at 09:22:18AM CEST, sridhar.samudrala@intel.com wrote:
>> On 5/25/2018 4:28 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>> On Fri, 25 May 2018 16:11:47 -0700
>>> "Samudrala, Sridhar" [ref] wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/25/2018 3:34 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 24 May 2018 09:55:14 -0700
>>>>> Sridhar Samudrala [ref] wrote:
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig
>>>>>> @@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ config HYPERV_NET
>>>>>>     	tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V virtual network driver"
>>>>>>     	depends on HYPERV
>>>>>>     	select UCS2_STRING
>>>>>> +	select FAILOVER
>>>>> When I take a working kernel config, add the patches then do
>>>>> make oldconfig
>>>>>
>>>>> It is not autoselecting FAILOVER, it prompts me for it. This means
>>>>> if user says no then a non-working netvsc device is made.
>>>> I see
>>>>       Generic failover module (FAILOVER) [M/y/?] (NEW)
>>>>
>>>> So the user is given an option to either build as a Module or part of the
>>>> kernel. 'n' is not an option.
>>> With most libraries there is no prompt at all.
>> Not sure what you meant by this.
>> Without any patches applied, i had a .config file with HYPERV_NET configured
>> as a module.
>> Then after applying the first 2 patches in this series, i did a
>>   make oldconfig
>> and i see the above prompt.
>>
>> Are you saying that on some distros, 'make oldconfig creates a .config
>> file without any prompt and FAILOVER is not getting selected even when HYPERV_NET
>> is enabled?
>>
>>
> Well the thing is that for a user, it makes no sense to select
> "FAILOVER" by hand. It is a lib, so it should be only select it by a
> user. It has no sense to have it turned on by hand - no lib user.
> You can achieve that by simply removing "help" for the Kconfig
> item. Same thing for "NET_FAILOVER".

I played around with the CONFIG options and i see that FAILOVER options do
get selected correctly when virtio-net/netvsc are enabled.  Even if the FAILOVER
is turned off by the user before the hyperv-net/virtio-net patches are applied,
it gets selected automatically when hyperv-net/virtio-net patches are applied and
enabled in config.

If we don't want to allow the user to see these options, then i think we need to
remove them from Kconfig files.  Just removing "help" doesn't seem to make a
difference.

Can we address any config issues (i don't see any at this point) as a bug-fix on top
of this series?


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