Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: remove XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:14:27AM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 09:43 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 02:03:17PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 07:23 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > > On Feb 16, 2014 3:07 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> > > > Please look in the grub git tree. They have fixed their code to not do
> > > > this anymore. This should be reflected in the patch description.
> > > 
> > > Thanks, I didn't know that. That turned out to be grub commit
> > > ec824e0f2a399ce2ab3a2e3353d372a236595059 ("Implement grub_file tool and
> > > use it to implement generating of config"), see
> > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/util/grub.d/20_linux_xen.in?id=ec824e0f2a399ce2ab3a2e3353d372a236595059
> 
> And that commit was reverted a week later in grub commit
> faf4a65e1e1ce1d822d251c1e4b53d96ec7faec5 ("Revert grub-file usage in
> grub-mkconfig."), see
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/util/grub.d/20_linux_xen.in?id=faf4a65e1e1ce1d822d251c1e4b53d96ec7faec5 .
> 
> That commit has no explanation (other than its one line summary). So
> we're left guessing why this was done. Luckily, it doesn't matter here,
> because the test for CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST is superfluous.

How about we ask Vladimir?

Vladimir - could you shed some light on it? Thanks!

> 
> Anyhow, I hope to submit a second version of this patch later this day.
> 
> 
> Paul Bolle
> 
> 
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