Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752960AbZI2CbF (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:31:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751881AbZI2CbE (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:31:04 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46557 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751096AbZI2CbD (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:31:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4AC17018.4040600@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:25:28 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: akataria@vmware.com CC: Gerd Hoffmann , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. References: <1253233028.19731.63.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090919224430.GB9567@kroah.com> <1253419185.3253.21.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090920074247.GA5733@elte.hu> <1253647845.10565.20.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <4AB9CE66.1030504@redhat.com> <1254185107.13456.32.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <1254185107.13456.32.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 21 On 09/28/2009 05:45 PM, Alok Kataria wrote: > + bool "VMI Guest support [will be deprecated soon]" > + default n This is incorrect use of the word "deprecated"... it's *already* deprecated (a word which pretty much means the opposite of "recommended".) As far as "default n" is concerned... this is usually not necessary; "n" is the default unless anything else is specified. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/