[Sound-open-firmware] [PATCH 5/6] vhost: add an rpmsg API

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

>>>>> +config VHOST_RPMSG
>>>>> +	tristate
>>>>> +	depends on VHOST
>>>>
>>>> depends on RPMSG_VIRTIO?
>>>
>>> No, RPMSG_VIRTIO is used on the guest side, VHOST_RPMSG (as well as
>>> all other vhost drivers) on the host side.
>>
>> I vaguely recalled something about sockets, and was wondering if there isn't
>> a dependency on this:
>>
>> config VHOST_VSOCK
>> 	tristate "vhost virtio-vsock driver"
>> 	depends on VSOCKETS && EVENTFD && VHOST_DPN
>> 	select VHOST
> 
> You probably are thinking about the first patch in the series "vhost: convert
> VHOST_VSOCK_SET_RUNNING to a generic ioctl." But no, this RPMsg driver
> doesn't depend on vsock, on the contrary, it takes a (albeit tiny) piece of
> functionality from vsock and makes it global.

yes, this is what I was thinking about, thanks for clarifying.