Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Nov 2011 20:58:20 +0200 | Subject | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote: >> So integrating kvm-tool into the kernel isn't going to work as a free >> pass to make non-backwards compatible changes to the KVM user/kernel >> interface. Given that, why bloat the kernel source tree size? > > Ted, I'm confused. Making backwards incompatible ABI changes has never > been on the table. Why are you bringing it up?
And btw, KVM tool is not a random userspace project - it was designed to live in tools/kvm from the beginning. I've explained the technical rationale for sharing kernel code here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/4/150
Please also see Ingo's original rant that started the project:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/962051/focus=962620
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