ACK/Cmnt: ACK: [PATCH v2] UBUNTU: [Config] Mark CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO built-in
Tim Gardner
tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Mar 29 12:36:40 UTC 2023
On 3/28/23 9:18 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> 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.
Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
My previous comment was meant to be an ACK, along with suggestions for
the minor changes suggested by Stefan and myself.
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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc
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