Hi Ted, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ted Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > And the same problems will exist with kvm-tool. What if you need to > release a new version of kvm-tool? Does that mean that you have to > release a new set of kernel binaries? It's a mess, and there's a > reason why we don't have glibc, e2fsprogs, xfsprogs, util-linux-ng, > etc., all packaged into the kernel sources.
If we need to release a new version, patches would go through the -stable tree just like with any other subsystem. On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ted Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > Because it's a stupid, idiotic thing to do. The discussion is turning into whether or not linux/tools makes sense or not. I wish you guys would have had it before perf was merged to the tree. Pekka