Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756240AbZJBDBI (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 23:01:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755434AbZJBDBH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 23:01:07 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:34430 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755060AbZJBDBG (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 23:01:06 -0400 To: akataria@vmware.com Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Gerd Hoffmann , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , "virtualization\@lists.osdl.org" , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton 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> <20090929100831.18ece319@infradead.org> <1254242989.7803.11.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:00:51 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1254242989.7803.11.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> (Alok Kataria's message of "Tue\, 29 Sep 2009 09\:49\:49 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=76.21.114.89;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.21.114.89 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa01 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;akataria@vmware.com X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Report: * -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa01 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 T_TooManySym_01 4+ unique symbols in subject * 0.0 XM_SPF_Neutral SPF-Neutral * 0.4 UNTRUSTED_Relay Comes from a non-trusted relay Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:26:12 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1325 Lines: 30 Alok Kataria writes: > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 01:08 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> > For now I have just added some text in the feature-removal file and >> > disabled VMI by default in the Kconfig, the reason that needs to be >> > done is because "Live Migration" of a VMI enabled VM to future >> > products which don't support VMI will not work, so its important that >> > newer distros keep this disabled, if they want seamless migration >> > that is. >> >> 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? I do that for sysctl right now. Eric -- 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/