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

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Message-ID: <4BA3260D.5090407@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:21:49 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Zachary Amsden <zamsden@...hat.com>,
	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>, 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 03/19/2010 12:44 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Too bad - there was heavy initial opposition to the arch/x86 unification as
> well [and heavy opposition to tools/perf/ as well], still both worked out
> extremely well :-)
>    

Did you forget that arch/x86 was a merging of a code fork that happened 
several years previously?  Maybe that fork shouldn't have been done to 
begin with.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

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