From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751883Ab1GYKWE (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:22:04 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38857 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751317Ab1GYKV6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:21:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Alexander Graf In-Reply-To: <20110725101607.GI28787@elte.hu> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:21:56 +0200 Cc: Pekka Enberg , Jan Kiszka , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, avi@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, gorcunov@gmail.com, levinsasha928@gmail.com, asias.hejun@gmail.com, prasadjoshi124@gmail.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: References: <4E2CA6DE.4040900@web.de> <20110725075305.GA32294@elte.hu> <0EAA5203-D598-4CBA-B8D2-AB371A7689A9@suse.de> <20110725092656.GD28787@elte.hu> <68C2AB77-AA91-4B21-A321-2DB4EF8121C1@suse.de> <20110725101607.GI28787@elte.hu> To: Ingo Molnar X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 25.07.2011, at 12:16, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >>> So it was a no brainer for me to pull it into -tip. >> >> The thing I don't agree with is that it should live in the kernel >> tree. > > FYI, tools/kvm/ *already* lives in the kernel tree - that is how it's > developed and used and it also shares code with the kernel. So you're just trying to make this a self-fulfilling prophecy now? I already stated before that I could easily add those 'requirements' to any project I liked. That still wouldn't mean it's a good idea to clutter the _kernel_ repository with its code. It's not a kernel. Alex