From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com,
Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: remove unused Kconfig parameter
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:09:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51DC27BF.9090606@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130709150554.GA27579@pd.tnic>
On 07/09/2013 08:05 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:48:40AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> Then that should be discussed on grub2 to remove said check and modify
>> the code so that it can properly work without regression.
>
> Actually, the kernel patch removing that symbol should be applied so
> that grub2 breaks faster. One can't possibly rely on kernel internals
> for anything, as it is insanely insane (yep, the tautology is on purpose
> :-)).
>
Indeed, especially since it inherently assumes something is a kernel
compile-time option... we routinely change things between compile time
and runtime.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-09 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-08 6:28 [PATCH] xen: remove unused Kconfig parameter Michael Opdenacker
2013-07-08 19:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-08 19:34 ` [Xen-devel] " Matt Wilson
2013-07-08 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-08 20:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-08 23:35 ` Paul Bolle
2013-07-09 0:26 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-09 7:41 ` Jan Beulich
2013-07-09 14:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-09 14:54 ` Jan Beulich
2013-07-09 15:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-09 15:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-07-09 17:19 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-09 20:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-09 20:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-09 20:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-09 22:34 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2013-07-10 3:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-10 3:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-10 6:19 ` Matt Wilson
2013-07-10 7:41 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2013-07-10 14:46 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-11 10:08 ` Paul Bolle
2013-07-11 17:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-11 18:13 ` Paul Bolle
2013-07-11 18:24 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-11 21:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-08 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
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