Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:29:05 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33 |
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On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Gregory Haskins wrote: > > > > And upstream submission is not always like this! > > I would think the process would come to a grinding halt if it were ;)
Well, in all honesty, if it had been non-virtualized drivers I would just have pulled. The pull request all looked sane, the diffstat looked clean and non-intrusive, and I had no problems with any of that.
But the virtualization people always argue about the fifty-eleven different ways of doing things, and unlike real drivers - where the actual hardware places constraints on what the heck is going on - virtualization people seem to revel in making new interfaces weekly, and tend to be only incidentally limited by hardware (ie hardware interfaces may limit some _details_, but seldom any higher-level arguments).
So when I see another virtualization interface, I want the virtualization people to just argue it out amongst themselves. Thanks to the virtue of me personally not caring one whit about virtualization, I can stand back and just watch the fireworks.
Which is not to say that I enjoy it (I like the occasional flame-fest, but in order to like them I need to _care_ enough to get fired up about them!).
So I just don't want the in-fighting to take place in my tree, so I'd rather see the fighting die out _before_ I actually pull.
You people are all crazy.
Linus
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