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Message-ID: <1392581262.28866.66.camel@x220>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:07:42 +0100
From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...e-electrons.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, x86@...nel.org,
xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] xen: remove XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST
This patch removes the Kconfig symbol XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST which is
used nowhere in the tree. We do know grub2 has a script that greps
kernel configuration files for this symbol. It shouldn't do that. As
Linus summarized:
This is a grub bug. It really is that simple. Treat it as one.
So there's no reason to not remove it, like we do with all unused
Kconfig symbols.
[pebolle@...cali.nl: rewrote commit explanation.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...e-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
---
Tested with "git grep".
Michael's version can be found at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/8/34 .
(This is the same patch, with a rewritten explanation, and my S-o-b
line.) The question whether this symbol can be removed was further
discussed in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/308 .
I don't think a bug was ever filed against grub2 regarding its way to
check for Xen support. Should that be done first?
arch/x86/xen/Kconfig | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
index 01b9026..512219d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
@@ -19,11 +19,6 @@ config XEN_DOM0
depends on XEN && PCI_XEN && SWIOTLB_XEN
depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC && ACPI && PCI
-# Dummy symbol since people have come to rely on the PRIVILEGED_GUEST
-# name in tools.
-config XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST
- def_bool XEN_DOM0
-
config XEN_PVHVM
def_bool y
depends on XEN && PCI && X86_LOCAL_APIC
--
1.8.5.3
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