Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:12:28 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > I don't think perf should be used as a precendent that now argues that > any new kernel utility should be moved into the kernel sources. Does > it make sense to move all of mount, fsck, login, etc., into the kernel > sources? There are far more kernel tools outside of the kernel > sources than inside the kernel sources.
You seem to think that the KVM tool was developed in isolation and we simply copied the code to tools/kvm for the pull request. That's simply not true. We've done a lot of work to make the code feel like kernel code from locking primitive APIs to serial console emulation register names. We really consider KVM tool to be a new Linux subsystem. It's the long lost cousin or bastard child of KVM, depending on who you ask.
I don't know if it makes sense to merge the tools you've mentioned above. My gut feeling is that it's probably not reasonable - there's already a community working on it with their own development process and coding style. I don't think there's a simple answer to this but I don't agree with your rather extreme position that all userspace tools should be kept out of the kernel tree.
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