Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/include/public: deprecate GNTTABOP_transfer

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jan,

On 16/02/2022 09:29, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 16.02.2022 08:20, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > On 15.02.22 22:13, Julien Grall wrote:
> > > As a side note, should we also update SUPPORT.md?
> > Good question.
> I'm not sure here either - talking about individual hypercall sub-ops
> seems overly small granularity to me for this kind of doc. Plus I
> don't view deprecation and de-supporting as the same thing. The latter
> would mean to render unsupported any old XenoLinux which may still be
> in use, all of the sudden.
I understand this would result to unsupport some old OSes (not clear how 
old). However, from what Juergen said this feature is untested.
To me it sound like we are not confident that we could security support 
this feature.
So I am not sure to understand why we only want to deprecate it.

Cheers,

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Julien Grall