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Message-ID: <20090605000910.GQ8916@const.famille.thibault.fr>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 02:09:10 +0200
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christian Tramnitz <christian@...mnitz.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@...citrix.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"jeremy@...p.org" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	"avi@...hat.com" <avi@...hat.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@...citrix.com>,
	"gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"kurt.hackel@...cle.com" <kurt.hackel@...cle.com>,
	Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@...citrix.com>,
	"xen-users@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-users@...ts.xensource.com>,
	ksrinivasan <ksrinivasan@...ell.com>,
	"EAnderson@...ell.com" <EAnderson@...ell.com>,
	"wimcoekaerts@...mekes.net" <wimcoekaerts@...mekes.net>,
	Stephen Spector <stephen.spector@...rix.com>,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com
Subject: Re: Merge Xen (the hypervisor) into Linux

Linus Torvalds, le Thu 04 Jun 2009 11:53:45 -0700, a écrit :
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Christian Tramnitz wrote:
> >
> > What a great idea, and while we're doing this let's also drop support
> > for legacy stuff like PATA and i8042 in mainline. Noone will need it
> > anyway because their successors are on the market for years... let's
> > just take it for granted that everyone is using SATA and USB nowadays!
> 
> Have you noticed how PATA and i8042 don't screw up anything else? 

Right.  We should get rid of all the HIGHMEM kmap crap that cripples all
the code.

Samuel
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