On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 11:26:18AM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 11:22:33AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > And if pci-hotplug could be done as cpu-hotplug, then it would simplify > > > pci-hotplug > > > (guest would only need to read PCI_BASE) and probably it would be > > > possible to unify hotplug > > > code for pci/cpu. But that for sure will break compatibility. > > > > Which isn't really acceptable. > > > I do not think it should be taken for granted. We should be able to get > rid of a crud once in a while.
In general, yes. It needs to be well planned several years in advance though. Something like http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt might be a model. Breaking compatibility would bring very little gain in this case though, right? > -- > Gleb.
