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

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 10:42, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

If you need to pass '-nodefaults' to get the thing to start up at
all, that seems to be stretching the definition of "functional"
to me.

thanks
-- PMM