Ingo Molnar wrote: > so right now the only option for a clean codebase is the KVM in-kernel > code.
I strongly disagree with this. Bad code in userspace is not an excuse for shoving stuff into the kernel, where maintaining it is much more expensive, and the cause of a mistake can be system crashes and data loss, affecting unrelated processes. If we move something into the kernel, we'd better have a really good reason for it. Qemu code _is_ crufty. We can do one of three things: 1. live with it 2. fork it and clean it up 3. clean it up incrementally and merge it upstream Currently we're doing (1). You're suggesting a variant of (2), fork plus move into the kernel. The right thing to do IMO is (3), but I don't see anybody volunteering. Qemu picked up additional committers recently and I believe they would be receptive to cleanups. [In the *pic/pit case, we have other reasons to push things into the kernel. But "this code is crap, let's rewrite it in the kernel" is not a justification I'll accept. I'd be much happier if we could quantify these other reasons.] -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
