linux-kernel - Re: stand-alone kvmtool

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Message-ID: <87mw41aqbc.fsf@linaro.org>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:02:31 +0000
From:	Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@...aro.org>
To:	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
Cc:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	"kvm\@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@....com>,
	Asias He <asias.hejun@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Ronald Minnich <rminnich@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	"kvmarm\@lists.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu>,
	"linux-arm-kernel\@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: stand-alone kvmtool


Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com> writes:

> Hi Will,
>
> On 18/02/15 15:50, Will Deacon wrote:
>> Hi Andre,
>> 
>> Thanks for doing this. Since it looks unlikely that kvmtool will ever be
>> merged back into the kernel tree, it makes sense to cut the dependency
>> in my opinion.
>> 
<snip>
>
> P.S. Although both approaches still provide the kvmtool patch history,
> they do not compile before the dependency cut patches. If that is an
> issue, one could think about injecting those new patches back into the
> repository time line. Admittedly that sounds scary, but would solve the
> problem.

If you can have it all it would be nice to preserve buildability all
through your history for bisecting (and the moon on a stick please ;-)

Is the dependency on the kernel sources something that has been stable
over the projects history or something that's been declining/increasing
over time?

-- 
Alex Bennée
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