Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753549AbZI2JDY (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:03:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753408AbZI2JDX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:03:23 -0400 Received: from sous-sol.org ([216.99.217.87]:52045 "EHLO sequoia.sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751052AbZI2JDW (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:03:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:01:30 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Alok Kataria Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , 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]. Message-ID: <20090929090130.GD3958@sequoia.sous-sol.org> 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> <4AC17018.4040600@zytor.com> <1254193238.13456.48.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1254193238.13456.48.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1021 Lines: 28 * Alok Kataria (akataria@vmware.com) wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:25 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > 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. > > How about this ? Thanks. Looks good to me (missing Signed-off-by). I think it's also useful to generate some runtime noise saying it's a deprecated option. Even something as simple as: - pv_info.name = "vmi" + pv_info.name = "vmi [deprecated]"; -- 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/