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| author | Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> | 2017-08-16 19:31:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-08-24 09:57:28 +0200 |
| commit | ecda85e70277ef24e44a1f6bc00243cebd19f985 (patch) | |
| tree | cd094195d6ab0ed476ad093236880c8ce145e8e4 /drivers/char | |
| parent | x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch() (diff) | |
| download | linux-ecda85e70277ef24e44a1f6bc00243cebd19f985.tar.xz linux-ecda85e70277ef24e44a1f6bc00243cebd19f985.zip | |
x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
Lguest seems to be rather unused these days. It has seen only patches
ensuring it still builds the last two years and its official state is
"Odd Fixes".
Remove it in order to be able to clean up the paravirt code.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: lguest@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816173157.8633-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index ccd239ab879f..623714344600 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ config VIRTIO_CONSOLE depends on VIRTIO && TTY select HVC_DRIVER help - Virtio console for use with lguest and other hypervisors. + Virtio console for use with hypervisors. Also serves as a general-purpose serial device for data transfer between the guest and host. Character devices at diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c index ad843eb02ae7..4d229dde6522 100644 --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c @@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@ static const struct file_operations port_fops = { * We turn the characters into a scatter-gather list, add it to the * output queue and then kick the Host. Then we sit here waiting for * it to finish: inefficient in theory, but in practice - * implementations will do it immediately (lguest's Launcher does). + * implementations will do it immediately. */ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count) { |