>>> On 17.01.13 at 11:46, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at suse.com> wrote: >>>> On 16.01.13 at 18:48, David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com> wrote: >> Full compatibility is possible and not that hard. Is it actually worth >> it though? Will there be people updating Xen to 4.3 and unable to >> update their kernel or userspace tools? > > I think we simply shouldn't even be considering removal of > functionality that we can't tell for sure is not being used > anywhere, and that we don't deliberately want to go away (like > was the case with 32-bit hypervisor support). Forgot to say - for our distros, the kernel is being updated quite regularly, whereas I have no idea at what intervals the kexec user space code gets pulled. Plus I don't think I've seen any patches to this one yet, so you're basically disabling all kexec functionality for the time being when you remove the old code. Jan
