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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:22:45 +0200
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On 03/19/2010 12:16 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>> Yes its a double standard
>>
>> Glibc has a higher standard than Fedora/RHEL.
>>
>> Just like the Ubuntu kernel ships various ugly unfit for upstream kernel
>> drivers.
>>      
> There's a world of a difference between a fugly driver and a glibc patch.
>
>    

Yes, fugly drivers can be cleaned up, but glibc ABIs are forever.

-- 
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