Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels

Avi Kivity
2011-11-07T12:26:50Z

On 11/07/2011 12:30 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> It's not just about code, it's as much about culture and development process.
> >
> > Indeed. The BSDs have both kernel and the base system in a single
> > repository. There are probably good reasons for (and against) it.
> >
> > 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?

Things like tools/power may make sense, most of the code is tied to the
kernel interfaces. tools/kvm is 20k lines and is likely to be 40k+
lines or more before it is generally usable. The proportion of the code
that talks to the kernel is quite small.

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