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

Christian Borntraeger
2017-09-26T10:41:41Z

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...

Lets wait for one release and then get rid of it?