On 11/07/11 12:44, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Indeed I do not see any advantage, since all the interfaces they use are >> stable anyway (sysfs, msr.ko). >> >> If they had gone in x86info, for example, my distro (F16, not exactly >> conservative) would have likely picked those tools up already, but it >> didn't. > > Distributing userspace tools in the kernel tree is a relatively new > concept so it's not at all surprising distributions don't pick them up > as quickly. That doesn't mean it's a fundamentally flawed approach, > though.
tools/ lacks a separation into "kernel hacker's testing+debugging toolbox" and "userspace tools". It lacks proper buildsystem integration for the userspace tools, there is no "make tools" and also no "make tools_install". Silently dropping new stuff into tools/ and expecting the world magically noticing isn't going to work. cheers, Gerd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
