On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 07:37 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > > On 07.01.16 at 15:01, <jonathan.creekm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ian Campbell writes: > > > > > I don't see this as contrary to your stated goals (e.g. ripping out all > > > the > > > other schedulers), but I consider you to be within the expert camp for > > > wanting to do so (and having the chops to handle whatever pieces you find > > > yourselves with). I have no objections at all to allowing experts such as > > > yourselves to configure things and I applaud you for doing this in an > > > upstream way (it is the right thing to do). > > > > > > My concern is that while you rightly consider yourselves expert enough and > > > are building something for a specific (and AIUI targeted) use case many > > > normal users tend to think that if they are expert enough to find and flip > > > the switch then they are expert enough to deal with the consequences, when > > > they are not and/or they do not have the specific use case which the > > > switch > > > was added to support i.e. they want common or garden Xen and we want that > > > to mean the same for everyone. > > > > > > It's those people (including general purpose distro maintainers) who I > > > think need to be strongly discouraged from messing with these options > > > because there will be a strong gravity towards them doing so. > > > > So, if I add a patch in a v3 of this series that introduces a > > CONFIG_EXPERT option and hides all of the scheduler options behind that, > > would that be acceptible? That is a proposal that was mentioned on this > > thread before.
Thinking about it I think I'd avoid the specific name CONFIG_EXPERT due to the expectations which Linux's use of the name has set. If we invert the sense then we could call it e.g. CONFIG_STANDARD_PLATFORM and default it to y, I expect it will be easier to discourage people from turning such an option off than to discourage them from turning something like CONFIG_EXPERT on. > With me asking for that option to not have a visible prompt by default, > but nevertheless being settable. I do realize that this may not be > possible with the current kconfig tool, but that's imo the only way to > keep people from playing with expert options just because they see > there's a prompt. No textual warning will help this, I'm afraid. While I have reasonably strong opinions about this issue, I do not think they warrant forking Kconfig over. With a suitably strong wording IMHO we have covered ourselves sufficiently. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
