linux-kernel - Re: kvmtool tree (Was: Re: [patch] config: fix make kvmconfig)

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Message-ID: <51192B95.1000103@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:34:13 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: kvmtool tree (Was: Re: [patch] config: fix make kvmconfig)

On 02/11/2013 08:34 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:18 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
>>
>> That's complete nonsense. If you want to use pieces of the kernel
>> infrastructure, then just *take* them. There are loads of projects which
>> use the kernel config tools, for example. There's no need to be *in* the
>> kernel repo.
>
> Exactly. I do *not* want a abstraction layer just because somebody
> wants to use it. It causes idiotic guards in the header files etc. We
> already had that pain with the user-level header inclusions etc.
>
> Just copy it.
>

The UAPI work and "make headers_install" already has cleaned things up 
immensely.

	-hpa


-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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