Re: [PATCH 05/22] hw/arm: Select VIRTIO_NET for virt machine

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 5/9/23 11:27, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 23:24, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > --without-default-devices is not about choosing to not build
> > some devices; it is about making non-selected devices opt-in
> > rather than opt-out.
>
> Hmm, so it's basically "the person doing the configuration needs
> to know what they're doing, the Kconfig system will give them
> no hints about what devices might or might not be needed to
> make machine type M functional" ?

It depends on what you mean by functional.  I would say you do get what 
is needed to have a functional machine, but not what is needed to have a 
useful machine.

But typically the latter is the easier of the two, because you should 
have an idea of what -devices are useful *to you*.

Paolo