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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:24:12 -0400
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:08:10PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Fact is that developing ABIs within an integrated project is 
> *amazingly* powerful. You should try it one day, instead of 
> criticizing it :-)

I've been doing this long before you declare it the rosetta stone.  Some
of the worst ABIs I know come from that kind of development, e.g. all
the ioctls we have in xfs, inherited from the "tightly integrated" IRIX
development cycle.