From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add dm-userspace to the Xen kernel Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:07:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4491CBF6.30809@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Dan Smith , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org I think dm-userspace is great, but I don't think it belongs in patches/. To quote Chris W.: "Good things there are bits that are ready to go upstream or fixes to base Linux that are transient by version (backport of a fix that's in the -rc for the next kernel or somesuch)." Until this ends up in -mm, I really don't think we should add this to the -xen tree as it has no dependence on Xen. We should be good members of the kernel community here and go through the normal channels. At any rate, I would think that you would want it to be useful first before adding it which means bringing in all of the tools into the tree. If a user already has to fetch a bunch of tools and compile from source, adding an additional patch to the Xen build isn't so bad. Regards, Anthony Liguori Dan Smith wrote: