Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

Alok Kataria
2009-10-02T04:45:19Z

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 20:00 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> >> btw the "default" in KConfig tends to be totally ignored by distro
> >> kernel maintainers... please don't assume that just because some default
> >> is set in KConfig it has ANY impact on what shows up in distributions.
> >
> > So, are you saying that we should be doing something else along with
> > toggling it off in the Kconfig ?
> > We have already informed most of the distro folks about this deprecation
> > so I think we should be okay there, but if there is something else that
> > should be done, do let me know.
>
> Perhaps log a message when it is first used?

Yeah, Chris' suggestion about adding "deprecated" string in pv_info.name
does just that.

Thanks,
Alok