Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965155AbWBGPQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:16:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965160AbWBGPQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:16:05 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:12429 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965155AbWBGPQC (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:16:02 -0500 To: Rik van Riel Cc: Kirill Korotaev , Kirill Korotaev , Linus Torvalds , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, frankeh@watson.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, serue@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, saw@sawoct.com, devel@openvz.org, Dmitry Mishin , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Virtualization/containers: introduction References: <43E7C65F.3050609@openvz.org> <43E88F27.7050602@sw.ru> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:13:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Rik van Riel's message of "Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:52:17 -0500 (EST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 25 Rik van Riel writes: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> Yes people have to be willing to bend to work together to find the >> best solution. I am willing. At the same time I am not easy to >> convince that other solutions are necessarily better. > > It's not about "better", it's about different requirements. In part but I think it is possible to largely agree on what the requirements for the kernel are, by seeing what the requirements of the different users are. That is part of the discussion. Once those requirements are agreed upon it is about the best technical solution. Maintainability is one of the more important requirements is it not? Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/