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[Bug 1557994] Re: s390/kconfig: setting for CONFIG...9P....

 

@Tim,

Imho 9P can/should be =y on all arches, cause then one can use 9P as
root/boot device. And it opens the interesting posibility of e.g.
"booting" an lxd container in kvm, and the like.

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Title:
  s390/kconfig: setting for CONFIG...9P....

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Heinz-Werner Seeck <heinz-werner_seeck@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2016-03-16 03:58:51 ==
  Reason:
  To allow using the host file system from within a KVM guest, in order to simplify management

  Following settings are required :
  CONFIG_NET_9P=y
  CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=y
  CONFIG_9P_FS=y
  CONFIG_9P_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
  CONFIG_9P_FS_SECURITY=y

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