[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC 00/29] Incomplete Kconfig conversion
On 11/9/15 9:06 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > 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. Yes. Apologizes on the delay. I'll get on it today. -- Doug Goldstein Attachment:
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