Re: [PATCH] Rename KVM_UPSTREAM to OBSOLETE_KVM_IMPL

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

  On 09/13/2010 09:03 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Am 13.09.2010 20:56, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 09/13/2010 01:52 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Am 13.09.2010 19:54, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
>>>> The symbol KVM_UPSTREAM is used to mark sections of code that are
>>>> part of
>>>> the upstream kvm implemetation that is not used in qemu-kvm.  However
>>>> the
>>>> name becomes ambiguous if qemu-kvm is merged upstream.
>>>>
>>> I doubt this is describing all cases correctly as well. Some changes
>>> should rather happen the other way around (e.g. you surely don't want to
>>> obsolete x86 kvm_arch_put/get_registers in favor of
>>> kvm_arch_load/save_regs, do you?).
>>>
>> There's really no perfect name to describe what we're actually doing
>> here.  It's probably not a detail worth worrying that much about.
> I don't mind the name as long as it doesn't reflect the strategy (but
> why this change at all then?).

It would be silly to have a define KVM_UPSTREAM in upstream.

> Jan (who would prefer to have the time for doing the cleanups)
>

Hopefully, with a single source base doing the cleanups would be easier, 
so a more efficient use of the time we have.


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