Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: remove unused Kconfig parameter

[Matt Wilson]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 03:28:54PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:28:24AM +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> > This patch proposes to remove the XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST kernel
> > configuration parameter defined in arch/x86/xen/Kconfig, but used
> > nowhere in the makefiles and source code.
> > 
> > This dummy parameter was added 3 years back, and it may
> > make sense to remove it now, as the reasons to use it were not
> > very clear.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Can't remove it. It is used by grub2.

For reference, here's a related Debian bug report:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633127

Summary: grub2 scripts parse /boot/config-$(uname -r)

--msw

> > ---
> >  arch/x86/xen/Kconfig | 5 -----
> >  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
> > index 1a3c765..b6401dc 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
> > @@ -19,11 +19,6 @@ config XEN_DOM0
> >  	depends on XEN && PCI_XEN && SWIOTLB_XEN
> >  	depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC && ACPI && PCI
> >  
> > -# Dummy symbol since people have come to rely on the PRIVILEGED_GUEST
> > -# name in tools.
> > -config XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST
> > -	def_bool XEN_DOM0
> > -
> >  config XEN_PVHVM
> >  	def_bool y
> >  	depends on XEN && PCI && X86_LOCAL_APIC
> 
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