Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost_net.c broken by --kerneldir

[Hollis Blanchard <hollis_blanchard@mentor.com>]

On 08/25/2010 06:37 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 August 2010, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>    
>> The problem seems to be that jump from /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h to
>> asm/sigcontext.h inside<kerneldir>  rather than inside /usr/include. It
>> seems like adding -Ikerneldir/arch/foo/include will always be a problem,
>> since it will always be used to satisfy "#include<asm/bar.h>". Only
>> files built with KVM_CFLAGS would be affected, and I guess vhost_net.c
>> accidentally gets into a broken include path where the other KVM_CFLAGS
>> files doesn't.
>>
>> I'm wondering why this isn't causing more problems for more people. My
>> host is Fedora 12, FWIW, but this doesn't seem like it could at all be
>> related to toolchain version, for example.
>>      
> We only recently fixed the kernel to have this warning in types.h, which
> triggers more often than kernel.h, where it used to be before. In 2.6.35
> and before, you consequently would not have noticed the problem.
>    

Thanks Arnd, that explains it.

It looks like the --kerneldir option needs to be re-thought.

Hollis Blanchard
Mentor Graphics, Embedded Systems Division