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

Heiko Carstens
2017-09-26T10:40:19Z

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...