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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 06:16:42 +0200
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On 10/08/2015 03:10 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:24:22PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 18:14 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>
>>> The original motivation was to get rid of the "superpages" option when
>>> building a pv-domU.
>>
>> It's suffered rather from feature creep then, since removing that one
>> interface seems like much less of a problem[0] than a wholesale skewering
>> of bindings of entire librarier or even just cherry-picking the things no
>> one is using and removing those.
>>
>> It's worth trying to clean up these legacy things occasionally and seeing
>> who complains, but when someone does complain its usually time to step back
>> and examine what the actual goal is and what the path to that place is.
>>
>> Unless you have the stomach for helping manage a transition away from the
>> parts of these bindings that people are still using then I'd suggest just
>> leaving it alone and concentrating on the superpages thing and whether that
>> can be removed or what needs to happen first etc.
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>> [0] although we are still waiting for Konrad's reply on that one in the
>> relevant thread.
>
> RIP PV superpages.

Okay, I'll do this as soon as Roger's domain builder patches are
committed.


Juergen