Alok Kataria <[email protected]> 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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