From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752691Ab1KGG6H (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2011 01:58:07 -0500 Received: from mail-vx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:38514 "EHLO mail-vx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751231Ab1KGG6F convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2011 01:58:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20111106220848.9C2D258166@fche.csb> References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> <4EB66036.4080102@redhat.com> <1320577728.1428.73.camel@jaguar> <4EB67486.1070105@redhat.com> <4EB67D17.7000701@redhat.com> <4EB680D9.2070706@redhat.com> <877C82F4-F07C-44AA-8722-3AF57CFC4597@suse.de> <20111106220848.9C2D258166@fche.csb> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:58:04 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: tZqP2fF44WECJqsHjWwokI9_WYE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels From: Pekka Enberg To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Alexander Graf , "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" , qemu-devel Developers , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , Blue Swirl , Avi Kivity , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >> [...]  We don't want to be different, we want to make the barrier of >> entry low. > > When has the barrier of entry into the kernel ever been "low" > for anyone not already working in the kernel? What's your point? Working on the KVM tool requires knowledge of the Linux kernel. Pekka From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:58:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> <4EB66036.4080102@redhat.com> <1320577728.1428.73.camel@jaguar> <4EB67486.1070105@redhat.com> <4EB67D17.7000701@redhat.com> <4EB680D9.2070706@redhat.com> <877C82F4-F07C-44AA-8722-3AF57CFC4597@suse.de> <20111106220848.9C2D258166@fche.csb> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" , qemu-devel Developers , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , Alexander Graf , Blue Swirl , Avi Kivity , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111106220848.9C2D258166@fche.csb> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >> [...] =A0We don't want to be different, we want to make the barrier of >> entry low. > > When has the barrier of entry into the kernel ever been "low" > for anyone not already working in the kernel? What's your point? Working on the KVM tool requires knowledge of the Linux kernel. Pekka From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNJ9i-0006hZ-3X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:58:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNJ9h-0004pJ-9Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:58:06 -0500 Received: from mail-vx0-f173.google.com ([209.85.220.173]:51162) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNJ9h-0004pF-58 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:58:05 -0500 Received: by vcbf13 with SMTP id f13so3429466vcb.4 for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:58:04 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: penberg@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20111106220848.9C2D258166@fche.csb> References: <1320543320-32728-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4EB65C5B.8070709@redhat.com> <4EB66036.4080102@redhat.com> <1320577728.1428.73.camel@jaguar> <4EB67486.1070105@redhat.com> <4EB67D17.7000701@redhat.com> <4EB680D9.2070706@redhat.com> <877C82F4-F07C-44AA-8722-3AF57CFC4597@suse.de> <20111106220848.9C2D258166@fche.csb> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:58:04 +0200 Message-ID: From: Pekka Enberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" , qemu-devel Developers , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , Alexander Graf , Blue Swirl , Avi Kivity , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >> [...] =A0We don't want to be different, we want to make the barrier of >> entry low. > > When has the barrier of entry into the kernel ever been "low" > for anyone not already working in the kernel? What's your point? Working on the KVM tool requires knowledge of the Linux kernel. Pekka