Re: headersinstall of kvm.h does not work

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Hello Avi,
>
> in commit fb56dbb31c4738a3918db81fd24da732ce3b4ae6 you changed 
> include/linux/Kbuild:
> ----snip----
> KVM: Export include/linux/kvm.h only if $ARCH actually supports KVM
> Currently, make headers_check barfs due to <asm/kvm.h>, which <linux/kvm.h>
> includes, not existing.  Rather than add a zillion <asm/kvm.h>s, export 
> kvm.h only if the arch actually supports it.
> [...]
>  unifdef-y += keyboard.h
> -unifdef-y += kvm.h
> +unifdef-$(CONFIG_HAVE_KVM) += kvm.h
>  unifdef-y += llc.h
>  unifdef-y += loop.h
> ----snip------
>
> This patch does not work. Kbuild (scripts/Makefile.headersinst) does not 
> check the config file, so kvm.h is never installed.
>
> Sam is there an easy way to allow constructs like "unifdef-$(CONFIG_FOO)"?
>   

I think this cleverness has caused too much trouble already, and adding 
asm-*/kvm.h would have been better.

As I'm about to disappear for a week, consider a patch to remove the 
config dependency and add asm-*/kvm.h pre-acked for mainline.  Maybe the 
presence of those empty asm-*/kvm.h files will encourage further kvm 
ports to *.

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