From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753319Ab0CRNB0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:01:26 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:43466 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753280Ab0CRNBO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:01:14 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=i+d4bQGELjnAbu/wGVu/Y5bcbpPsSsFlmZ0p72EgqOnX1GI0dVkRAgMeEtB4XEYDfk fM0k+Oxj0iUReDDZhJSjjtfE8ymz8A++cBXNZ+a2L3GotgRsIQJioqhzawoLzCWJdQlD PPw7TUlUekp6vvevY5u8+RlJfiw6lECOEUuc0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20100316130840.GA24808@elte.hu> <4BA00F1F.1090907@codemonkey.ws> <20100317081041.GC16374@elte.hu> <4BA1E24B.6090904@redhat.com> <20100318085607.GB2157@elte.hu> <20100318101025.GA13073@elte.hu> <4BA1FEB0.7000400@redhat.com> <20100318113527.GA13168@elte.hu> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:01:11 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 935b4a6e9d214fb7 Message-ID: <520f0cf11003180601k3a08d77ej24b98f833c8d1a9a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project From: John Kacur To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Ingo Molnar , Avi Kivity , Alexander Graf , Anthony Liguori , "Zhang, Yanmin" , Peter Zijlstra , Sheng Yang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti , oerg Roedel , Jes Sorensen , Gleb Natapov , Zachary Amsden , ziteng.huang@intel.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , "Fr?d?ric Weisbecker" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Ingo Molnar writes: > >> [...] >> Distributions are very eager to update kernels even in stable periods of the >> distro lifetime - they are much less willing to update user-space packages. >> [...] > > Sorry, er, what?  What distributions eagerly upgrade kernels in stable > periods, were it not primarily motivated by security fixes?  What users > eagerly replace their kernels? > Us guys reading and participating on the list. ;)