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Message-Id: <1253418994.3253.18.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Date:	Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:56:34 -0700
From:	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"virtualization@...ts.osdl.org" <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].


On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 15:44 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:17:08PM -0700, Alok Kataria wrote:
> > Given this new development, I wanted to discuss how should we go about
> > retiring the VMI code from mainline Linux, i.e. the vmi_32.c and
> > vmiclock_32.c bits.
> > 
> > One of the options that I am contemplating is to drop the code from the
> > tip tree in this release cycle, and given that this should be a low risk
> > change we can remove it from Linus's tree later in the merge cycle.
> 
> That sounds good to me, how intrusive are the patches to do this? 

It's a single patch, and the changes are pretty much self contained,
meat of the patch comprises of removing the vmi_32.c and vmiclock_32.c
file. I don't think we may want to break the changes down. 

Below are the diffstats, let me post the patch in a separate mail.

====
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 
 arch/x86/Kconfig                    |   10 
 arch/x86/include/asm/vmi.h          |  269 ----------
 arch/x86/include/asm/vmi_time.h     |   98 ----
 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile            |    1 
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c             |    7 
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c           |    9 
 arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c            |  913 -----------------------------------
 arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c       |  321 ------------
 9 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1629 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/vmi.h
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/vmi_time.h
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c
====

>  Is it going to be tricky to get everything merged properly in -tip
> for it?

IMO, shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks,
Alok

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