Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:00:51 -0700 | Subject | Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. |
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Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 01:08 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> > For now I have just added some text in the feature-removal file and >> > disabled VMI by default in the Kconfig, the reason that needs to be >> > done is because "Live Migration" of a VMI enabled VM to future >> > products which don't support VMI will not work, so its important that >> > newer distros keep this disabled, if they want seamless migration >> > that is. >> >> btw the "default" in KConfig tends to be totally ignored by distro >> kernel maintainers... please don't assume that just because some default >> is set in KConfig it has ANY impact on what shows up in distributions. > > So, are you saying that we should be doing something else along with > toggling it off in the Kconfig ? > We have already informed most of the distro folks about this deprecation > so I think we should be okay there, but if there is something else that > should be done, do let me know.
Perhaps log a message when it is first used?
I do that for sysctl right now.
Eric
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