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From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	x86@kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] xen: remove XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:07:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1392581262.28866.66.camel@x220> (raw)

This patch removes the Kconfig symbol XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST which is
used nowhere in the tree. We do know grub2 has a script that greps
kernel configuration files for this symbol. It shouldn't do that. As
Linus summarized:
    This is a grub bug. It really is that simple. Treat it as one.

So there's no reason to not remove it, like we do with all unused
Kconfig symbols.

[pebolle@tiscali.nl: rewrote commit explanation.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
---
Tested with "git grep".

Michael's version can be found at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/8/34 .
(This is the same patch, with a rewritten explanation, and my S-o-b
line.) The question whether this symbol can be removed was further
discussed in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/308 .

I don't think a bug was ever filed against grub2 regarding its way to
check for Xen support. Should that be done first?

 arch/x86/xen/Kconfig | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
index 01b9026..512219d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
@@ -19,11 +19,6 @@ config XEN_DOM0
 	depends on XEN && PCI_XEN && SWIOTLB_XEN
 	depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC && ACPI && PCI
 
-# Dummy symbol since people have come to rely on the PRIVILEGED_GUEST
-# name in tools.
-config XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST
-	def_bool XEN_DOM0
-
 config XEN_PVHVM
 	def_bool y
 	depends on XEN && PCI && X86_LOCAL_APIC
-- 
1.8.5.3


             reply	other threads:[~2014-02-16 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-16 20:07 Paul Bolle [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-17 12:23 [PATCH] xen: remove XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-17 13:03 ` Paul Bolle
2014-02-17 14:43   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-18 10:14     ` Paul Bolle

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