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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/09/2013 08:05 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:48:40AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> Then that should be discussed on grub2 to remove said check and modify
>> the code so that it can properly work without regression.
> 
> Actually, the kernel patch removing that symbol should be applied so
> that grub2 breaks faster. One can't possibly rely on kernel internals
> for anything, as it is insanely insane (yep, the tautology is on purpose
> :-)).
> 

Indeed, especially since it inherently assumes something is a kernel
compile-time option... we routinely change things between compile time
and runtime.

	-hpa

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