From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752000Ab0CSHX1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:23:27 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23426 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750775Ab0CSHX0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:23:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4BA32645.3020500@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:22:45 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Alan Cox , drepper@gmail.com, Anthony Liguori , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Joerg Roedel , Jes Sorensen , Gleb Natapov , Zachary Amsden , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Fr?d?ric Weisbecker Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project References: <20100318201826.GA20588@elte.hu> <20100318205655.GB4821@elte.hu> <20100318220654.4305b9e0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100318221617.GB19669@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20100318221617.GB19669@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/19/2010 12:16 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> Yes its a double standard >> >> Glibc has a higher standard than Fedora/RHEL. >> >> Just like the Ubuntu kernel ships various ugly unfit for upstream kernel >> drivers. >> > There's a world of a difference between a fugly driver and a glibc patch. > > Yes, fugly drivers can be cleaned up, but glibc ABIs are forever. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.