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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] Time to make CONFIG_PARAVIRT non-experimental.
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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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