Re: [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:24:22PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 18:14 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> 
> > The original motivation was to get rid of the "superpages" option when
> > building a pv-domU.
> 
> It's suffered rather from feature creep then, since removing that one
> interface seems like much less of a problem[0] than a wholesale skewering
> of bindings of entire librarier or even just cherry-picking the things no
> one is using and removing those.
> 
> It's worth trying to clean up these legacy things occasionally and seeing
> who complains, but when someone does complain its usually time to step back
> and examine what the actual goal is and what the path to that place is.
> 
> Unless you have the stomach for helping manage a transition away from the
> parts of these bindings that people are still using then I'd suggest just
> leaving it alone and concentrating on the superpages thing and whether that
> can be removed or what needs to happen first etc.
> 
> Ian.
> 
> [0] although we are still waiting for Konrad's reply on that one in the
> relevant thread.

RIP PV superpages.