Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753467AbZJBEpT (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:45:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752682AbZJBEpS (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:45:18 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([65.115.85.73]:40791 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751557AbZJBEpR (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:45:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. From: Alok Kataria Reply-To: akataria@vmware.com To: "Eric W. Biederman" 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 In-Reply-To: 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> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: VMware INC. Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:45:21 -0700 Message-Id: <1254458721.8491.39.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-8.el5_2.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 993 Lines: 26 On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 20:00 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> 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? Yeah, Chris' suggestion about adding "deprecated" string in pv_info.name does just that. Thanks, Alok -- 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/