Re: [PATCH] KVM: s390: Disable CONFIG_S390_GUEST_OLD_TRANSPORT by default

Heiko Carstens
2017-09-26T10:47:52Z

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:41:41PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
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> On 09/26/2017 12:40 PM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 08:37:36PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> >>
> >> On 09/25/2017 07:54 PM, Halil Pasic wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 09/25/2017 04:45 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >>>> There is no recent user space application available anymore which still
> >>>> supports this old virtio transport, so let's disable this by default.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> >>>
> >>> I don't have any objections, but there may be something I'm not aware of.
> >>> Let's see what Connie says. From my side it's ack.
> >>>
> >>> Via whom is this supposed to go in? Looking at the MAINTAINERS, I would
> >>> say Martin or Heiko but I don't see them among the recipients.
> >>
> >> FWIW as the original author of that transport
> >> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> >>
> >> I can pick this up for Martins/Heikos tree if you want.
> >
> > When will this code be removed?
> >
> > When the config option was initially added Conny said it should survive
> > "probably two kernel releases or so, depending on feedback".
> > It was merged for v4.8. Now we are five kernel releases later...
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> Lets wait for one release and then get rid of it?

So it's going to be removed with the next merge window.
Where is the patch? ;)