[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen: core dom0 support

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [...] At the moment its all running on massive out-of-tree 
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> patches, which doesn't make anyone happy.  It's best that it 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> be in the mainline kernel.  You know, like we argue for 
> everything else.
>
>> In three years time, will we regret having merged this?
>
> Its a pretty minor amount of extra stuff on top of what's been 
> added over the last 3 years, so I don't think it's going to 
> tip the scales on its own.  I wouldn't be comfortable in 
> trying to merge something that's very intrusive.

Hm, how can the same code that you call "massive out-of-tree 
patches which doesn't make anyone happy" in an out of tree 
context suddenly become non-intrusive "minor amount of extra 
stuff" in an upstream context?

I wish the upstream kernel was able to do such magic, but i'm 
afraid it is not.

        Ingo

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