[PATCH v2] UBUNTU: [Config] Mark CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO built-in

[Tim Gardner]

On 3/28/23 8:51 AM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685291
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1931841
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2006488
> 
> This enables initrd-less boot on generic kernel, enabling any Ubuntu
> installation to be lifted from any hardware and converted into a VM
> which will, even with corrupted initrd and missing modules, be able to
> boot by default. This is an extremly useful property to have on all
> ubuntu kernels. Separately, this also removes the need for linux-kvm
> kernel flavour, as all the changes it has are now incorporated into
> generic flavour & cloud-images.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com>
> ---
> 
>   Changes since v1:
>   - add buglinks
>   - improve annotations comment
> 
>   debian.master/config/annotations | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian.master/config/annotations b/debian.master/config/annotations
> index bc466d7318..4017f1f651 100644
> --- a/debian.master/config/annotations
> +++ b/debian.master/config/annotations
> @@ -528,8 +528,8 @@ CONFIG_SCSI_IPR_DUMP                            note<'LP: #1343109'>
>   CONFIG_SCSI_IPR_TRACE                           policy<{'amd64': 'y', 'arm64': 'y', 'armhf': 'y', 'ppc64el': 'y', 'riscv64': 'y'}>
>   CONFIG_SCSI_IPR_TRACE                           note<'LP: #1343109'>
>   
> -CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO                              policy<{'amd64': 'm', 'arm64': 'm', 'armhf': 'm', 'ppc64el': 'm', 'riscv64': 'm', 's390x': 'm'}>
> -CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO                              note<'tech preview of new feature'>
> +CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO                              policy<{'amd64': 'y', 'arm64': 'y', 'armhf': 'y', 'ppc64el': 'y', 'riscv64': 'y', 's390x': 'y'}>
> +CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO                              note<'enable initrdless boot in VMs for ease of use, cloud-kernel parity and disaster recovery'>
>   
>   CONFIG_SECURITY_SAFESETID                       policy<{'amd64': 'y', 'arm64': 'y', 'armhf': 'y', 'ppc64el': 'y', 'riscv64': 'y', 's390x': 'y'}>
>   CONFIG_SECURITY_SAFESETID                       note<'LP: #1845391'>

Can you add the LP bug numbers to the note ? Eons from now when someone 
is thinking about this change, there may be discussion in the LP bug 
that is of interest.
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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc