[illumos-Developer] webrev: removal of hat_getkpfnum

[Albert Lee]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> This function (and some supporting complaints to warn people using it) are
> long over due for removal.
>
> The webrev to remove them is here:
>
> http://mexico.purplecow.org/gdamore/webrev/nohat/
>
> Note that I also touched some starcat specific code for this, but I think
> the changes are safe.  Its not clear to me that anyone has ever, or ever
> will, run illumos on starcat (SF15K class hardware), so I can't test the
> changes (not having such a machine myself).  Still, I think making the
> change is worthwhile, and we can deal with any fallout from this (which is
> *not* expected) on such hardware if and when it arises.
>
>  - Garrett

As discussed, the hat_getkpfnum removal should be safe, and the
hat_kpr_enabled tunable is unlikely to be missed as it is only useful
as a bug workaround and there are alternatives for that.

-Albert