Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

[Chris Wright]

* Alok Kataria (akataria@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:25 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 09/28/2009 05:45 PM, Alok Kataria wrote:
> > > +	bool "VMI Guest support [will be deprecated soon]"
> > > +	default n
> > 
> > This is incorrect use of the word "deprecated"... it's *already*
> > deprecated (a word which pretty much means the opposite of "recommended".)
> > 
> > As far as "default n" is concerned... this is usually not necessary; "n"
> > is the default unless anything else is specified.
> 
> How about this ?  Thanks.

Looks good to me (missing Signed-off-by).  I think it's also useful
to generate some runtime noise saying it's a deprecated option.

Even something as simple as:

-	pv_info.name = "vmi"
+	pv_info.name = "vmi [deprecated]";

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