Re: kvmtool tree (Was: Re: [patch] config: fix make kvmconfig)
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Feb 06 2013 - 16:47:00 EST
* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 12:12:57 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >
> > > > Yeah, that's a good idea - I think Pekka can apply that change
> > > > just fine to help anyone doing merges - I don't think kconfig
> > > > treats it as a fatal error.
> > >
> > > Applied, thanks guys!
> >
> > Adding Stephen to the cc.
> >
> > What's the endgame for kvmtool/next? The patch that this fixes has been
> > sitting in linux-next for over 15 months and hasn't been pulled by Linus,
> > yet some find it to be quite useful.
> >
> > Is it a permanent addition to linux-next, is there a route to mainline,
> > or something else?
>
> Linus has said that he will not take the kvmtool tree in its
> current form, but would prefer that it be a separate project,
> so I should really drop it from linux-next (and ask the tip
> guys to remove it from their auto-latest branch).
>
> I have actually been meaning to get back to this, so, today I
> will drop the kvmtool tree and, Ingo, if you could (at your
> convenience i.e. when you are next rebasing it) remove it from
> tip/auto-latest, thanks.
Pekka still intends to send it in the next merge window AFAIK,
and I use it for testing rather frequently so I'm not going to
remove it from my tree for the time being.
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.
Thanks,
Ingo
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