From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752219Ab1GYLgG (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:36:06 -0400 Received: from dspnet.fr ([188.165.44.67]:44840 "EHLO dspnet.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751920Ab1GYLf7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:35:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:26:05 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert To: Alexander Graf Cc: Ingo Molnar , Pekka Enberg , Jan Kiszka , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, avi@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, gorcunov@gmail.com, levinsasha928@gmail.com, asias.hejun@gmail.com, prasadjoshi124@gmail.com Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1 Message-ID: <20110725112605.GA2012@dspnet.fr> References: <4E2CA6DE.4040900@web.de> <20110725075305.GA32294@elte.hu> <0EAA5203-D598-4CBA-B8D2-AB371A7689A9@suse.de> <20110725085426.GA28787@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:03:32AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > It's very hard to understand. It's similar to religion - I could > easily apply your point to every reasonably low-level user space > project out there. X for example. X needs to interact with KMS and > DRI and whatdoiknow. So it'd be a perfect fit to pull into tools/, > no? The current development methodology of X11/mesa/v*api is catastrophic, as the state of the linux graphics attest. Having a functional equivalent in tools would be an immense step forward, if simply by having all the damn related code in the same place, but also because of the interactions you cite. OG.