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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to
	test kernels
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:02:34 +0100
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On 11/07/2011 11:30 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >  In Linux we don't have that culture.  No tool (except perf) lives in the
> >  kernel repo.  I fail to see why kvm-tool is that much different from
> >  udev, util-linux, iproute, filesystem tools, that it should be included.
>
> tools/power was merged in just 2 versions ago, do you think that
> merging that was a mistake?

Indeed I do not see any advantage, since all the interfaces they use are 
stable anyway (sysfs, msr.ko).

If they had gone in x86info, for example, my distro (F16, not exactly 
conservative) would have likely picked those tools up already, but it 
didn't.

Paolo