On 11/06/2011 06:35 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > >> The difference here is that although I feel Alex's script is a > >> pointless project, I'm in no way opposed to merging it in the tree if > >> people use it and it solves their problem. Some people seem to be > >> violently opposed to merging the KVM tool and I'm having difficult > >> time understanding why that is. > > > > One of the reasons is that if it is merge, anyone with a #include > > <linux/foo.h> will line up for the next merge window, wanting in. The > > other is that anything in the Linux source tree might gain an unfair > > advantage over out-of-tree projects (at least that's how I read Jan's > > comment). > > Well, having gone through the process of getting something included so > far, I'm not at all worried that there's going to be a huge queue of > "#include <linux/foo.h>" projects if we get in... > > What kind of unfair advantage are you referring to? I've specifically > said that the only way for KVM tool to become a reference > implementation would be that the KVM maintainers take the tool through > their tree. As that's not going to happen, I don't see what the > problem would be. I'm not personally worried about it either (though in fact a *minimal* reference implementation might not be a bad idea). There's the risk of getting informed in-depth press reviews ("Linux KVM Takes A Step Back >From Running Windows Guests"), or of unfairly drawing developers away from competing projects. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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