Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen/xsm: Cleanup in preparation for XSM SILO mode

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 26.06.18 at 13:09, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Future changes will introduce a new SILO mode, which is intended to be useful
> for cloud and enterprise setups where all domUs are unprivileged and have no
> buisness communicating directly.
> 
> This was discussed at XenSummit, but I'll leave further details to the series
> which introduces it.  However, to begin with, clean up the XSM namespacing to
> better separate XSM and FLASK.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Andrew Cooper (2):
>   xen/xsm: Rename CONFIG_FLASK_* to CONFIG_XSM_FLASK_*
>   xen/xsm: Rename CONIFIG_XSM_POLICY to CONFIG_XSM_FLASK_POLICY

I don't particularly mind the change, but I also don't view it as
particularly useful: For the first patch I'd see the point if you
meant to introduce some CONFIG_ABC_FLASK, but that's not how
I understand the description there. For the second I don't see
the point of retaining XSM in the name.

Jan



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