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Date:   Wed, 20 Oct 2021 23:11:47 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To:     Amy Parker <apark0006@student.cerritos.edu>
Cc:     kvm@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Addition of a staging subdirectory to virt/ for in-development
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021, Amy Parker wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> Has the idea of having a staging subdirectory for KVM been proposed before?

Not that I know of.

> It could become a buffer place for KVM features currently in development/not
> production ready, but that should be able to be conditionally included into
> the kernel. With a staging directory, these features would be divorced from
> KVM mainline, but would be able to be rolled out promptly to users while they
> are being refined.

Can you give an example?

I'm struggling to envision a feature that is both large enough to warrant
"staging", yet isolated enough to actually be "divorced from KVM mainline".
One of the rules for staging/drivers is that the drivers are standalone and don't
require changes to the kernel proper outside of docs, firmware, and perhaps
exports.