Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Time to make CONFIG_PARAVIRT non-experimental. | From | Rusty Russell <> | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:34:32 +1000 |
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On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 12:57 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Friday 14 September 2007 07:21, Rusty Russell wrote: > > It's pretty widely used, > > Is it? By whom?
Hi Andi,
Please stop asking for facts! It's was easy claim to make, and hard to disprove 8)
> > and the distributions will turn it on. > > That's no reason to make it default y. Please undo that. default y > is near always a bad idea.
How about a "select" based on Xen, lguest or VMI? There's no other reason to enable it, after all.
> Also I would still consider it experimental.
After 9 months in mainline and three kernel versions, I'd hope not. It's been pretty damn stable (ok, you broke it once, but maybe that's because you consider it experimental).
Cheers, Rusty.
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