Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 10/08/2015 03:10 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:24:22PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 18:14 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> >
> > > The original motivation was to get rid of the "superpages" option when
> > > building a pv-domU.
> > It's suffered rather from feature creep then, since removing that one
> > interface seems like much less of a problem[0] than a wholesale skewering
> > of bindings of entire librarier or even just cherry-picking the things no
> > one is using and removing those.
> >
> > It's worth trying to clean up these legacy things occasionally and seeing
> > who complains, but when someone does complain its usually time to step back
> > and examine what the actual goal is and what the path to that place is.
> >
> > Unless you have the stomach for helping manage a transition away from the
> > parts of these bindings that people are still using then I'd suggest just
> > leaving it alone and concentrating on the superpages thing and whether that
> > can be removed or what needs to happen first etc.
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> > [0] although we are still waiting for Konrad's reply on that one in the
> > relevant thread.
> RIP PV superpages.
Okay, I'll do this as soon as Roger's domain builder patches are
committed.


Juergen

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