Re: kvmtool tree (Was: Re: [patch] config: fix make kvmconfig)

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu Feb 07 2013 - 16:40:48 EST


Hi Ingo,

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 22:46:46 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Pekka still intends to send it in the next merge window AFAIK,

That has been true since v3.2 :-(

> and I use it for testing rather frequently so I'm not going to
> remove it from my tree for the time being.

I didn't ask you to remove it from your tree, I just would like it
removed from that branch that is included in linux-next
(tip/auto-latest). I know others who also use it for testing.

> Note that I never actually had any maintenance problems due to
> it: it's orthogonal, and as long as you don't use it explicitly
> (such as its 'make kvmconfig' feature - which is rather handy)
> it never actually broke anything.

I don't doubt any of that, it is just that Linus has explicitly said that
he will not pull it into his tree. Thus, it should not be in linux-next.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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