From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, ross.lagerwall@citrix.com
Cc: lars.kurth@citrix.com, sstabellini@kernel.org, liuw@liuw.name,
George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.9] livepatch: Declare live patching as a supported feature
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:19:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f9c0a01-f8fb-e7b3-9981-596d10d5f9c5@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5951F56102000078001013A5@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
Hi Jan,
On 06/27/2017 07:04 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> 06/26/17 6:40 PM >>>
>>> --- a/xen/common/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/xen/common/Kconfig
>>> @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ config CRYPTO
>>> bool
>>>
>>> config LIVEPATCH
>>> - bool "Live patching support (TECH PREVIEW)"
>>> + bool "Live patching support"
>>> default n
>>
>> This default should flip as well.
>
> For unstable maybe. But please not for 4.9 - people shouldn't be caught by
> surprise after 9 RCs that a config option's default changes. Furthermore, if
> we default it to y, will there be much of a difference to simply removing the
> config option?
I think we should allow user to disable livepatch at build time. I have
mind any people looking at using Xen in constraint environment and
require some certifications. They will likely want to disable some part
of the Xen.
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-27 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-26 15:36 [PATCH for-4.9] livepatch: Declare live patching as a supported feature Ross Lagerwall
2017-06-26 16:39 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-26 16:50 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-26 16:53 ` Ian Jackson
2017-06-26 17:18 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-27 8:37 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-27 10:47 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-27 10:49 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-26 16:50 ` Ross Lagerwall
2017-06-26 17:04 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-27 6:04 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-27 7:19 ` Julien Grall [this message]
2017-06-27 11:23 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-27 11:34 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-26 17:00 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-26 17:30 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-27 9:17 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-28 16:18 ` Ross Lagerwall
2017-06-28 16:41 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-30 13:42 ` George Dunlap
2017-07-03 14:53 ` Ross Lagerwall
2017-07-04 8:36 ` Roger Pau Monné
2017-08-03 17:20 ` George Dunlap
2017-08-03 17:21 ` George Dunlap
2017-08-06 0:07 ` Is:livepatch-build-tools.git declare it supported? Was:Re: " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-08-07 10:26 ` George Dunlap
2017-08-07 15:59 ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-08 11:16 ` George Dunlap
2017-08-09 7:36 ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-21 10:59 ` George Dunlap
2017-08-21 12:07 ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-21 15:28 ` George Dunlap
2017-08-22 6:37 ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-22 10:58 ` George Dunlap
2017-08-22 11:16 ` Roger Pau Monné
2017-08-29 14:44 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-08-29 14:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-08-29 14:48 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-26 18:29 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-26 21:07 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-27 7:24 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-27 8:09 ` Lars Kurth
2017-06-27 10:49 ` Ian Jackson
2017-06-27 10:59 ` Lars Kurth
2017-06-27 10:46 ` Ian Jackson
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