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Subject: Re: [patch] config: fix make kvmconfig
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:12 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> What's the endgame for kvmtool/next?  The patch that this fixes has been
> sitting in linux-next for over 15 months and hasn't been pulled by Linus,
> yet some find it to be quite useful.
>
> Is it a permanent addition to linux-next, is there a route to mainline,
> or something else?

It is actively developed and has recently gained support for ARM, for
example. Ingo keeps pulling it to the -tip tree so tools/kvm also
appears on linux-next through that. Linus doesn't think it's worth
pulling and the KVM maintainers are uninterested.

So I guess we've deadlocked the Linux kernel development process?