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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: todo
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:03:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45FB687A.4090506@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45FB67E1.8040104@goop.org>

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>   It also has one
>> negative side-effect, which is promoting external module code that links
>> with the kernel.  IOW, there's much less incentive to get code merged
>> if it's just a matter of linking.
>>     
>
> It wouldn't be something we'd promote by making it easy to bind
> out-of-tree code to the interface.  And it would still be a
> kernel-version-specific ABI; no guarantees of stability.
BTW, my intention is definitely that all the pv-ops implementations are
linked into the kernel at build time; its just the binding references
get updated at boot time, and the unused code pages can be recycled. 
But they're all part of the same kernel image.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-17  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070317020011.GS10574@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
2007-03-17  2:48 ` todo Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-17  3:34   ` todo Chris Wright
2007-03-17  4:00     ` todo Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-17  4:03       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-03-17  4:55       ` todo Steven Rostedt
2008-05-20 17:44 TODO Santosh G
2008-05-26  0:58 ` TODO Randy Dunlap

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