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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:50:37 -0400
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Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
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	oerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
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	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> writes:

> [...]  It is actually because both kernel and user side are sync in
> this scheme.  [...]

This argues that co-evolution of an interface is easiest on the
developers if they own both sides of that interface.  No quarrel.

This does not argue that that the preservation of a stable ABI is best
done this way.  If anything, it makes it too easy to change both the
provider and the preferred user of the interface without noticing
unintentional breakage to forlorn out-of-your-tree clients.


- FChE