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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:33:48 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20100318113527.GA13168@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:35:27 +0100")
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

> [...]
> Distributions are very eager to update kernels even in stable periods of the 
> distro lifetime - they are much less willing to update user-space packages.
> [...]

Sorry, er, what?  What distributions eagerly upgrade kernels in stable
periods, were it not primarily motivated by security fixes?  What users
eagerly replace their kernels?

- FChE