linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.7-rc0

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Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:31:40 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.7-rc0

On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 02:34:33PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > Hi Linus,
> > > 
> > > Please consider pulling the latest LKVM tree from:
> > > 
> > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git kvmtool/for-linus
> > > 
> > > LKVM is the long lost userspace friend of KVM that makes it really easy
> > > to launch virtualized Linx environment on x86 and PPC64 Linux.
> > 
> > This still doesn't have any business in the kernel tree. [...]
> 
> Pekka & the LKVM developers are using the tools/kvm/ tree setup 
> to create new kernel features, to improve the kernel and to 
> reuse kernel code, amongst other things.
> 
> So being in the kernel tree is very practical and useful to 
> them.

It's probably not a surprise to anyone that I'm with Ingo on this. It's 
OK if people don't think tools/kvm is *worth it* but claiming that living 
in a separate repository is just as easy is completely ignoring reality.

			Pekka
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