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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:29:05 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@...il.com> cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, "alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" <alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33 On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Gregory Haskins wrote: > > > > And upstream submission is not always like this! > > I would think the process would come to a grinding halt if it were ;) Well, in all honesty, if it had been non-virtualized drivers I would just have pulled. The pull request all looked sane, the diffstat looked clean and non-intrusive, and I had no problems with any of that. But the virtualization people always argue about the fifty-eleven different ways of doing things, and unlike real drivers - where the actual hardware places constraints on what the heck is going on - virtualization people seem to revel in making new interfaces weekly, and tend to be only incidentally limited by hardware (ie hardware interfaces may limit some _details_, but seldom any higher-level arguments). So when I see another virtualization interface, I want the virtualization people to just argue it out amongst themselves. Thanks to the virtue of me personally not caring one whit about virtualization, I can stand back and just watch the fireworks. Which is not to say that I enjoy it (I like the occasional flame-fest, but in order to like them I need to _care_ enough to get fired up about them!). So I just don't want the in-fighting to take place in my tree, so I'd rather see the fighting die out _before_ I actually pull. You people are all crazy. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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