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

Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-07T11:02:46Z

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