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Message-Id: <1254245814.7803.37.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:36:54 -0700
From:	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"virtualization@...ts.osdl.org" <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].


On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:27 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 09/29/2009 10:25 AM, Alok Kataria wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
> > index 31e6f6c..d430e4c 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
> > @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ static inline int __init activate_vmi(void)
> >  
> >  	pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1;
> >  	pv_info.kernel_rpl = kernel_cs & SEGMENT_RPL_MASK;
> > -	pv_info.name = "vmi";
> > +	pv_info.name = "vmi [deprecated]";
> >  
> >  	pv_init_ops.patch = vmi_patch;
> >  
> > 
> > 
> 
> Where is this string used, and could this break something?

It is used by default_banner in "arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c", IMO this
just prints some info for users, shouldn't break anything. 

Alok
> 
> 	-hpa
> 

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