From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 13:42:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241440974.8777.38.camel@blaa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FEB0A6.4080104@redhat.com>
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:08 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> In general a distro provides kernel headers matched to the running
> kernel. For example F10 provides
> kernel-headers-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 to go along with
> kernel-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64. So a user running a distro
> kernel (the majority, given that most people don't inflict pain upon
> themselves unnecessarily) will have exactly the features exported by the
> kernel.
Right, but if you e.g. try to build a newer qemu-kvm on F10, you
currently need newer kvm kernel headers - IMHO, we should use #ifdef to
allow newer qemu-kvm build with older kvm headers.
Cheers,
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-03 21:37 [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 6:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Weil
2009-05-04 8:17 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2009-05-04 13:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 13:44 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2009-05-04 13:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 13:28 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 13:30 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 14:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-04 14:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-05-04 7:52 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 9:35 ` Paul Brook
2009-05-04 13:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 9:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 12:42 ` Mark McLoughlin [this message]
2009-05-04 13:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-04 13:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 13:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 13:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 13:40 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 11:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-04 13:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 13:38 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 14:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-04 14:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
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