[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC 00/29] Incomplete Kconfig conversion
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 10:58 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > You stated this better than I did. My goal is not to necessarily make > > this like the Linux kernel where users toggle on different bits at a > > whim but more for developers and companies shipping Xen, basically those > > with specialized environments could use this to upstream more code and > > have it disabled by default. > > This last bit will need some care and consideration, since such options are > liable to lead to the sort of fragmentation I'm worried about i.e. people > thinking they can turn them on outside the specialized environments and be > supported in doing so. But I think we can deal with that after this initial > transition. It should dovetail quite nicely with the "feature lifecycle" > stuff being discussed elsewhere. > > > The current patchset only exposes KEXEC as a user facing option because > > its currently a user facing option in the source tree. I would not > > expand the list of user facing options past that. I consider adding more > > outside of the scope of this work and something that would happen after > > this series lands on a case by case basis. > > > > My ultimate goal with this initial work is to get all the developer > > knobs in one place because currently they are spread around as Makefile > > defines or defines in a header file and get a little bit of code > > comments around them. > > Great! Sooo is there another patchset on its way? I was thinking to base some of the xSplice development on this, and also make tmem configurable as well. > > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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