Re: [Xen-devel] Requesting for freeze exception for VT-d posted-interrupts

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 14.07.15 at 11:21, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 05:51:02AM +0000, Wu, Feng wrote:
>> Is it possible to get to 4.6 if making this feature default off?
> 
> Note that I'm not the only one who makes the decision and I can't speak
> for maintainers. The first thing you ought to do is to convince
> maintainers, not me.
> 
> If you ask for my opinion -- I don't see a point in releasing feature
> with security flaw in design, even if it is off by default. 

It was actually me who suggested that by flagging this experimental
and defaulting it to off, chances would increase for this to be allowed
in without said issue fixed.

Jan


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