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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on
 in QEMU
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:15:58 -0500
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Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
> I don't feel very strongly about it but my gut feeling tells me we
> shouldn't be doing this.
>   

We have to.  It's not just KVM, it's virtio, tun/tap, and as we add more 
things to the Linux kernel to support QEMU, it'll just grow larger.

This is how applications are supposed to use kernel headers.  It's 
unpleasant, but that's just the way Linux is today.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers
>