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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> You simply kept ignoring me when I said that if something can be kept out
>> of the kernel without impacting performance, it should be.  I don't want
>> emergency patches closing some security hole or oops in a kernel symbol
>> server.
>
> Or rather, explained how I am a wicked microkernelist.  The herring were out
> in force today.

Well, if it's not being a "wicked microkernelist" then what is it?
Performance is hardly the only motivation to put things into the
kernel. Think kernel mode-setting and devtmpfs (with the ironic twist
of original devfs being removed from the kernel) here, for example.

                        Pekka