From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N66wB-00060A-No for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:19:59 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N66w7-0005w5-Ro for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:19:59 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41969 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N66w7-0005vs-JC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:19:55 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54118) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N66w7-0002Va-6m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:19:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4AF31747.4070806@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:19:51 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] net-bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu References: <1257294485-27015-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4AF2E247.3090409@redhat.com> <4AF2E7CE.8010506@us.ibm.com> <4AF2EB17.8090202@redhat.com> <4AF2F7E9.50300@us.ibm.com> <4AF2FA2A.4060500@redhat.com> <4AF2FC88.5030303@us.ibm.com> <4AF2FE57.2080700@redhat.com> <4AF30255.2020303@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Scott Tsai Cc: Mark McLoughlin , Anthony Liguori , Arnd Bergmann , Juan Quintela , Dustin Kirkland , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Michael Tsirkin On 11/05/2009 07:16 PM, Scott Tsai wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> It's just a bit annoying to create an entire new >> project for a few hundred line helper. >> > This new project would also be a better place for 'tunctl' and other > projects such as user mode linux might want to use your new helper > program. > Seems like a library implemented as executables instead of a shared object. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.