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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
	Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 06:16:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5615EE2A.6030303@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151008011056.GA22076@andromeda.dapyr.net>

On 10/08/2015 03:10 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 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.

Okay, I'll do this as soon as Roger's domain builder patches are
committed.


Juergen

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-08  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-06 10:46 [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python Juergen Gross
2015-10-06 11:18 ` Wei Liu
2015-10-06 11:33   ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-06 11:39     ` Wei Liu
2015-10-06 13:40       ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 14:51         ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-06 15:11           ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 15:21             ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-06 15:26               ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 15:30                 ` Zhigang Wang
2015-10-06 15:45                   ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 16:14                     ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-06 16:24                       ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-08  1:10                         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-10-08  4:16                           ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2015-10-08 14:30                             ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 15:38                 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-10-06 16:31                   ` Wei Liu
2015-10-06 16:38                     ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 16:42                       ` Wei Liu
2015-10-06 15:24           ` Zhigang Wang
2015-10-08 14:38             ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-08 15:09               ` Zhigang Wang
2015-10-08 15:27                 ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-08 16:32                   ` Zhigang Wang
2015-10-08 16:58                     ` Wei Liu
2015-10-09  4:42                     ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-09  9:43                       ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-09 10:16                         ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-09 13:29                       ` Andrew Cooper
2015-10-07  2:58   ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki

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