linux-kernel - Re: [patch] config: fix make kvmconfig

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Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2013 22:45:53 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] config: fix make kvmconfig

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:12 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
> What's the endgame for kvmtool/next?  The patch that this fixes has been
> sitting in linux-next for over 15 months and hasn't been pulled by Linus,
> yet some find it to be quite useful.
>
> Is it a permanent addition to linux-next, is there a route to mainline,
> or something else?

It is actively developed and has recently gained support for ARM, for
example. Ingo keeps pulling it to the -tip tree so tools/kvm also
appears on linux-next through that. Linus doesn't think it's worth
pulling and the KVM maintainers are uninterested.

So I guess we've deadlocked the Linux kernel development process?
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