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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:59:15 +0200
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> Virtualization is very tightly bound to the kernel, like it or not. 
> So is profiling, power management and a few other things.
> 
> And when you do 'ls tools/' you'll see exactly those topics 
> populated:
> 
>  earth5:~/tip> ls tools/
>  firewire  kvm  perf  power  slub  testing  usb  virtio
> 
> [ In fact tools/virtio/ was merged upstream yesterday and putting 
>   that code there was a good call IMO. ]

Correction: tools/virtio/ was merged much earlier than that - in 
v2.6.37.

Still the point remains: you cannot ridicule us moving user-space 
code to tools/ while virtio itself is moving code there ...

Thanks,

	Ingo