linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

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Message-ID: <520f0cf11003180601k3a08d77ej24b98f833c8d1a9a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:01:11 +0100
From:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
To:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	oerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	Zachary Amsden <zamsden@...hat.com>, ziteng.huang@...el.com,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	"Fr?d?ric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single 
	project

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@...hat.com> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:
>
>> [...]
>> Distributions are very eager to update kernels even in stable periods of the
>> distro lifetime - they are much less willing to update user-space packages.
>> [...]
>
> Sorry, er, what?  What distributions eagerly upgrade kernels in stable
> periods, were it not primarily motivated by security fixes?  What users
> eagerly replace their kernels?
>

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