Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
>> <random kernel tree>
>>
>> Developers, in particular, like to point things at their random 
>> kernel trees.  In general though, relying on a full kernel source 
>> tree being available isn't a good idea.  Kernel headers change 
>> dramatically across versions too so it's very likely that we would 
>> need to have a lot of #ifdefs dependent on kernel versions, or some 
>> of the uglier work arounds we have in usb-linux.c.
>>
>> I think the best way to avoid #ifdefs and dependencies on 
>> broken/incomplete glibc headers is to include all of the Linux 
>> headers we need within QEMU.  The attached patch does just this.
>>
>> I think there's room for discussion about whether we really want to 
>> do this.  We could potentially depend on some more common glibc 
>> headers (like asm/types.h) while bringing in less reliable headers 
>> (if_tun.h/virtio*).  Including them all seems like the most robust 
>> solution to me though.
>>
>> Comments? 
>
> I think we need to use the output of 'make headers-install', which 
> removes things like __user and CONFIG_*.

I was thinking about that as a possibility too.  We still need the same 
basic infrastructure though.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori