From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 4] Add "make sync" to sync need kernel headers to kvm-userspace Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:23:45 -0500 Message-ID: <480368F1.8080509@codemonkey.ws> References: <5b1798e467ce791db9ae.1208162224@thinkpadL> <20080414085002.GA15541@infradead.org> <48034444.6000208@qumranet.com> <20080414115403.GA27703@infradead.org> <4803485D.6030605@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christoph Hellwig , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jerone Young , kvm-ppc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, hollisb@us.ibm.com To: Avi Kivity Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4803485D.6030605@qumranet.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Avi Kivity wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> It would be nice to just be able to build kvm from git without a kernel >> around. The lack of that is what in fact keeps from hacking kvm >> userspace currently. >> >> > > It would be nice, but committing all header changes twice is not so nice > and error prone as well. > > Anyone serious about hacking kvm-userspace would not be deterred by the > additional clone. > > [maybe we can provide an automatically-generated git tree that has only > the kernel headers?] > Then people will simply find something else to complain about :-) I think as we split libkvm into it's own library and remove the dependency of kernel headers from libkvm consumers, this will stop being a problem in practice. Regards, Anthony Liguori ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone