Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] xen: Allow EXPERT mode to be selected from the menuconfig directly

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi George,

On 04/05/2020 12:10, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On Apr 30, 2020, at 3:50 PM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > In order to make easier to experiment, the option EXPERT can now be
> > > selected from the menuconfig rather than make command line. This does
> > > not change the fact a kernel with EXPERT mode selected will not be
> > > security supported.
> > Well, if I'm not mis-remembering it was on purpose to make it more
> > difficult for people to declare themselves "experts". FAOD I'm not
> > meaning to imply I don't see and accept the frustration aspect you
> > mention further up. The two need to be carefully weighed against
> > one another.
> I don’t think we need to make it difficult for people to declare themselves experts, particularly as 
> “all” it means at the moment is, “Can build something which is not security 
> supported”.  People who are building their own hypervisors are already pretty well advanced; I think we can 
> let them shoot themselves in the foot if they want to.
Assuming I reword the commit message regarding "make clean", could I 
consider this as an acked-by?
Cheers,

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Julien Grall