On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 08:06:54PM +0100, Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 01:46:15PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am 20.01.20 um 13:41 schrieb Michal Suchánek:
It's a fragment config recording only differences from default config. uinput is enabled in default config so it won't appear in kvmsmall config.
I see, it's black magic, But I trust you to get it right :-)
Thanks, this will make kernel-kvmsmall much more useful for the occasional "home user", who wants to have a graphical interface to his VMs and still save some space.
One word of warning before this gets out of hand and -kvmsmall flavor enters the dark path of abuse like kernel-default-base subpackage before it: the -kvmsmall flavor was *not* designed for "occasional home user" or, actually, any user. Its sole purpose is to serve as a flavor which builds as quickly as possible so that developers could quickly test their core fixes in a VM (or bisect regressions). Originally, we didn't even plan to build and publish it in BuildService.
In other words, the -kvmsmall flavor is not intended for practical use and therefore "it would make it more useful for practical use" is not a valid justification for adding more stuff to it.
That said, on x86 kvmsmall includes input support anyway (ie for power button and the virtual keyboard) so adding uinput is not something that deviates from the initial purpose. On powerpc input is not otherwise needed so adding it to support running virtual desktop is kind of overkill. Thanks Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org