On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:31:10AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:17 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Will merge the rustyvisor. > > > > IMHO the user code still doesn't belong into Documentation. > > Also it needs another review round I guess. And some beta testing by > > more people. > > Like any piece of code more review and more testing would be great. > (Your earlier review was particularly useful!). But it's not clear that > waiting for longer will achieve either.
Not clear to me. Release a clear lguest patchkit with documentation on l-k several times and you'll probably get both reviewers and testers. Then confidence level will rise. > > Look at kvm's experience for the reverse case: it went in, then got > rewritten. They at least already had some user base at this point. > As for the code in Documentation, my initial attempts tried to get > around the need for a userspace part by putting everything in the kernel > module. It meant you could launch a guest by writing a string > to /dev/lguest (no real ABI burden there), but it's a worse solution > than some user code in the kernel tree 8( Just put it into a separate tarball. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
