Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753544AbZI2Rab (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:30:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753219AbZI2Raa (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:30:30 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41035 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753010AbZI2Raa (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:30:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4AC24396.4080402@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:27:50 -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: Chris Wright , Gerd Hoffmann , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , 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> <4AC17018.4040600@zytor.com> <1254193238.13456.48.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090929090130.GD3958@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <1254245124.7803.34.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <1254245124.7803.34.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 795 Lines: 26 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? -hpa -- 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/