Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] virtio-gpu/2d: add hardware spec include file

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:11:45AM -0700, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 14 September 2014 08:09, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:32:21AM -0700, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> Who owns the "master" copy of the header and commits
> >> to making sure it builds on other things than Linux+gcc
> >> in that case?
> 
> > For most of virtio neither linux nor QEMU are the master.
> > syncing them has been done manually in the past.
> > As we are copying other headers from Linux anyway,
> > I think it would be better for everyone if we make
> > the Linux headers the master for QEMU going forward.
> 
> That's problematic because our copies of the linux headers
> are only (and can only) be included in our include path
> on Linux hosts. I had this problem with the PSCI headers
> for ARM (I can't say I really like the solution I came up
> with there, so if we can do better that would be cool).
> 
> -- PMM

Right. My idea was to add stuff that's used on all platforms
to some other directory (besides linux-headers).
I didn't try to implement this yet so I don't know whether
there are any issues with this.
Should be better than duplicating it manually.

-- 
MST