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

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Feb 11 2013 - 11:34:54 EST


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:18 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That's complete nonsense. If you want to use pieces of the kernel
> infrastructure, then just *take* them. There are loads of projects which
> use the kernel config tools, for example. There's no need to be *in* the
> kernel repo.

Exactly. I do *not* want a abstraction layer just because somebody
wants to use it. It causes idiotic guards in the header files etc. We
already had that pain with the user-level header inclusions etc.

Just copy it.

Linus
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