On 2011-02-23 12:04, Michael Tokarev wrote: > What's the current status of files in kvm/ subdirectory > in the qemu-kvm distribution (0.14 or git) ? > > As far as I can see, all that is old and unused stuff, > which only confuses users. It is not used during build > the Makefiles are obsolete and refers to non-existed > files/directories, some remaining bits (like vgabios) > are too old to be useful for current qemu-kvm, etc. > > Maybe it's better to just drop the whole thing to stop > confusion? > > If it may be needed in the future, it can be taken from > older source tarballs. Just letting that stuff to bitrot > isn't a nice thing to do. ;) > > I mentioned this yesterday to Avi (my question was > especially about vgabios), and he told me to send a > patch with justification. But it's way too simpler > to just do `git rm -r kvm' than apply a patch to > remove the whole thing. I think there are a few bits still in use: - kvm/kvm_stat - kvm/include (latest kernel headers) *) Otherwise, removing this cruft would be good. Jan *) This should really be discussed upstream again: Carry private copy of kvm headers or rely on distro / kvm-kmod to provide required defines, types etc.? I'm more and more in favor of option 1. -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
