Hi Christoph, On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 06:38 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:14:13AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > So instead of thinking a bit and trying to realize that there might be a reason people don't want all their user space in the kernel tree you go ahead and start your own crusade of creating a new user space. Great. That's how I always hoped Linux would be :(. > > It's not Linux in general yet, it's mostly a crusade of a few with a > political agenda. Would you mind sharing with the rest of us who exactly those few are and what is their political agenda? I certainly don't recognize myself or any of the development team from your description above. And to be completely honest, I think that's one of the single most stupid comments I've read in this thread. On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 06:38 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > And another argument, calling toyvisor2 "kvm" is a really bad idea. The > kvm binary has been used for the kvm-patched qemu binary for quite a > while in various distros, so re-using that name will cause utter > confusion. I don't foresee 'utter confusion'. The code definitely wants to live in tools/kvm so it's logical that the executable name is called 'kvm'. If distros want to package it with a different name, they're free to do so. > I'm happy that you guys do another independent userspace for kvm, but > please: > > a) give it a useful name I don't think toyvisor2 will do, really. I originally wanted to call the hypervisor 'pvm' for selfish reasons because quite frankly 'penix' just doesn't have the prestige 'linux' has. However, Ingo convinced me that 'kvm' is a good name and I agree with that. I'm open to alternative suggestions, though. > b) just develop it where it belongs, your own little git repository > somewhere I already explained why we want it in the kernel tree and what kind of benefits we think there are. I also explained that we want to reuse and share code with perf, for example. If you really want to argue against merging, you need to cough up some actual disadvantages or refute the suggested advantages. Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
