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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/11/2013 08:34 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

The UAPI work and "make headers_install" already has cleaned things up 
immensely.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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