Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Allow schedulers to be selectable through Kconfig

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 07.01.16 at 16:30, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some proposed text for discussion:
> 
> config STANDARD_PLATFORM
>       bool "Standard/Supported Platform"
>       default y
>       help
>             This option enables everything which is part of the standard and
>             supported Xen platform. You should say 'Y' to this question.
> 
>             Turning off this option will expose additional options which will
>             cause the resulting Xen binary to deviate from the supported
>             configuration. Resulting configurations are not support by the Xen
>             Project. Specifically configurations             which disable 
> this option:            :
> 
>  *                 are not tested by the Xen Project; If you disable this 
> option you should
>                    perform your own QA.
>  *                 are not Supported by the Xen Project; Guidance will be 
> given but
>                    ultimately you are responsible for fixing the issues you 
> discover.
>  *                 do not receive security support; Issues which are seen 
> only with the
>                    option disabled are not treated as security bugs and are 
> not subject to
>                    the security process                 
> http://www.xenproject.org/security-policy.html                ).
> 
>             Again, you should say 'Y' to this question.
> 
> Too much? In particular is the second half of each bullet over egging the
> pudding somewhat?

I think these second halves are quite helpful.

> The state of this option should be logged during boot. Somewhere in this
> lot I suppose:
> 
> (XEN) Xen version 4.7-unstable (osstest@bad) (gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2) 
> debug=y Mon Nov 30 10:33:03 UTC 2015
> (XEN) Latest ChangeSet: Thu Nov 26 16:01:27 2015 +0100 git:b1d398b
> 
> Either "Platform: Standard" or "Platform: Custom" perhaps? The first line
> is too long already so standard=y|n doesn't really work.

Perhaps there could be a 3rd line here saying: "Supported: yes
(xenproject.org)" or "Supported: no", allowing distros to further
customize this to direct their users to where support for the given
configuration can be got?

Jan


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