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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, platform, kconfig: move kvmconfig functionality
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Josh Triplett wrote:

> > > The new mergeconfig helper makes it easier to add other partial
> > > configurations similar to kvmconfig.
> > > 
> > > Based on a patch by Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>.
> > > Originally-Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
> > > 
> > > Modified to make the helper name more general than just virtualization,
> > > and factor out more of the common file path.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> > 
> > For the original patch from Luis:
> > Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> > 
> > For this patch:
> > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> > 
> > Thanks for generalizing this part of the Makefile, after it's merged it 
> > will make Luis's set reduce down to a single change.
> 
> Thank you as well for suggesting this refactoring; I should have thought
> to do the same rather than copying and pasting the contents of
> kvmconfig.
> 
> Should this go in via Andrew's -mm tree, or via tip for x86?
> 

The answer could be "both", if Ingo doesn't pick it up then Andrew 
sometimes picks it up and sends them along later.