From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on
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Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:13:16 -0500
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Stefan Weil wrote:
> Anthony Liguori schrieb:
>   
>
> For Debian systems, those headers are installed by package linux-libc-dev.
> There are also packages for cross compilation in emdebian
> (linux-libc-dev-mips-cross, linux-libc-dev-powerpc-cross, ...).
>
> Yes, those headers did not always match the features of the current kernel,
> so --enable-kvm did not work. This is fixed now - there is a linux-libc-dev
> 2.6.29-3 which is up-to-date.
>
> So, at the moment I see no need to fill the QEMU source tree with
> linux header files.
>   

We can not just rely on everyone who uses QEMU to use the latest version 
of Debian...

The fact is, linux-libc-dev is *not* meant for applications to use as 
the official kernel ABI.  We shouldn't depend on it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori