From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757979Ab3BKQev (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:34:51 -0500 Received: from mail-vc0-f180.google.com ([209.85.220.180]:42936 "EHLO mail-vc0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757698Ab3BKQet (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:34:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1360588699.7383.52.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <20130208084029.d7d97d6e26580a5512712f91@canb.auug.org.au> <20130208145539.GC30334@gmail.com> <20130211122654.GA5802@gmail.com> <20130211125627.GA7583@gmail.com> <1360588699.7383.52.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:34:28 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: pUS4C5Tevwaunce9bHL5ftSdrRQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: kvmtool tree (Was: Re: [patch] config: fix make kvmconfig) To: David Woodhouse Cc: Ingo Molnar , Pekka Enberg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "H. Peter Anvin" , Randy Dunlap , Thomas Gleixner , David Rientjes , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Sasha Levin , "H. Peter Anvin" , Michal Marek , Stephen Rothwell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:18 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > That's complete nonsense. If you want to use pieces of the kernel > infrastructure, then just *take* them. There are loads of projects which > use the kernel config tools, for example. There's no need to be *in* the > kernel repo. Exactly. I do *not* want a abstraction layer just because somebody wants to use it. It causes idiotic guards in the header files etc. We already had that pain with the user-level header inclusions etc. Just copy it. Linus