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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen: core dom0 support
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...] At the moment its all running on massive out-of-tree
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> patches, which doesn't make anyone happy. It's best that it
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> be in the mainline kernel. You know, like we argue for
> everything else.
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>> In three years time, will we regret having merged this?
>
> Its a pretty minor amount of extra stuff on top of what's been
> added over the last 3 years, so I don't think it's going to
> tip the scales on its own. I wouldn't be comfortable in
> trying to merge something that's very intrusive.
Hm, how can the same code that you call "massive out-of-tree
patches which doesn't make anyone happy" in an out of tree
context suddenly become non-intrusive "minor amount of extra
stuff" in an upstream context?
I wish the upstream kernel was able to do such magic, but i'm
afraid it is not.
Ingo
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