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SubjectRe: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels
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Hi Ted,

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> And the same problems will exist with kvm-tool.  What if you need to
> release a new version of kvm-tool?  Does that mean that you have to
> release a new set of kernel binaries?  It's a mess, and there's a
> reason why we don't have glibc, e2fsprogs, xfsprogs, util-linux-ng,
> etc., all packaged into the kernel sources.

If we need to release a new version, patches would go through the
-stable tree just like with any other subsystem.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> Because it's a stupid, idiotic thing to do.

The discussion is turning into whether or not linux/tools makes sense
or not. I wish you guys would have had it before perf was merged to
the tree.

Pekka
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