linux-kernel - Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

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Message-Id: <1254458721.8491.39.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Date:	Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:45:21 -0700
From:	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>, 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>,
	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 Thu, 2009-10-01 at 20:00 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> >> btw the "default" in KConfig tends to be totally ignored by distro
> >> kernel maintainers... please don't assume that just because some default
> >> is set in KConfig it has ANY impact on what shows up in distributions.
> >
> > So, are you saying that we should be doing something else along with
> > toggling it off in the Kconfig ? 
> > We have already informed most of the distro folks about this deprecation
> > so I think we should be okay there, but if there is something else that
> > should be done, do let me know.
> 
> Perhaps log a message when it is first used?

Yeah, Chris' suggestion about adding "deprecated" string in pv_info.name
does just that.

Thanks, 
Alok

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