Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a singleproject

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/19/2010 12:16 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Yes its a double standard
> >
> > Glibc has a higher standard than Fedora/RHEL.
> >
> > Just like the Ubuntu kernel ships various ugly unfit for upstream kernel
> > drivers.
> >      
> There's a world of a difference between a fugly driver and a glibc patch.
>
>    

Yes, fugly drivers can be cleaned up, but glibc ABIs are forever.

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