linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels

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Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 14:42:57 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org list" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels

Hi Ted,

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> And the same problems will exist with kvm-tool.  What if you need to
> release a new version of kvm-tool?  Does that mean that you have to
> release a new set of kernel binaries?  It's a mess, and there's a
> reason why we don't have glibc, e2fsprogs, xfsprogs, util-linux-ng,
> etc., all packaged into the kernel sources.

If we need to release a new version, patches would go through the
-stable tree just like with any other subsystem.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> Because it's a stupid, idiotic thing to do.

The discussion is turning into whether or not linux/tools makes sense
or not. I wish you guys would have had it before perf was merged to
the tree.

                        Pekka
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